It used to be that screaming “I’ve got a bomb” at the airport was the best way to get arrested. Now, thanks to the digital age, all you have to do is Twitter jokes about bombs. Everything’s so much easier now.
In Northern England this week, a frustrated man – delayed at the airport [...more]
The Guardian says new airport body scanners could break child protection laws.
Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved.
Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the [...more]
The so called “underwear bomber” nearly took down a plane on Christmas, and now the Transportation Security Administration is pushing for better security technology, namely the Millimeter Wave Passenger Imaging Technology Pilot — which amounts to X-ray scanners commonly seen in cartoons.
While the machines won’t show our green glowing bones, the TSA thinks it is [...more]