TSA to Phase Out ‘Naked Scanners’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 19, 2013 The airport security agency will discontinue the use of scanners that show travelers’ naked bodies, amid widespread cries of privacy violations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

TSA Commissions Study of X-Ray Body Scanners

By Michael Grabell, ProPublica Dec 20, 2012 After months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to explore the health effects of the agency's X-ray body scanners. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports

By Michael Grabell, ProPublica Oct 20, 2012 The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Privacy War Just Got Biological

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 11, 2012 In as little as one year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will have a mobile, long-range, laser-based molecular scanner that can identify any chemical substance in or on your body -- including gunpowder, flecks of cocaine on your sleeve and the half-digested Pop-Tart in your gut. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Much Ado About Touching

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2010 It’s D-Day for pat-down protests and so far it looks like most people just want to get where they’re going AP reports that waits at major airports Wednesday morning were surprisingly short -- the TSA estimates 20 minutes or less . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Granny Gets Searched

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Nov 23, 2010 It's hard to love the Transportation Security Administration, especially now that airport personnel seem so intent on touching people's junk. But the TSA's job isn't to be adorable, it's to be infallible -- and also, apparently, to suffer being unfairly maligned. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TSA

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Nov 23, 2010 Dig deeper

Dear Abusive Travelers, TSA Workers Are People, Too

Staff / Truthdig Nov 23, 2010 Seriously, people, it's not like John Q. TSA Worker woke up this morning jonesing to goose you. The union that represents the unfortunate patters-down says its members have been subjected to verbal abuse and even acts of physical violence since the new travel rules took effect. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Touch My Junk: Body Scans and Pat-Downs for Everyone

Staff / Truthdig Nov 22, 2010 To paraphrase the government's reaction to the backlash against new airport screening measures, "We hear you. Tough it up." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: Bad-Touched by TSA

Staff / Truthdig Nov 20, 2010 How's that touchy-feely thing working for you, TSA? It apparently doesn't work for some Americans. Other headlines making their way onto this week's edition of "Left, Right & Center" include GM's IPO, tax break shenanigans and Afghanistan withdrawal confusion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

TSA Grandparents

Mike Lester, Cagle Cartoons, The Rome News-Tribune Nov 20, 2010 Dig deeper

Full-Body Scanners

Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant Nov 20, 2010 Dig deeper