New TSA change

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(CNN) The Transportation Security Administration can now mandate some passengers go through a body scanner even if the travelers ask to opt out and get a full-body pat-down instead.

Mandated screening for some passengers would be "warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security," the TSA said in a document updating the protocol.

The change comes at a time of heightened concern about aviation security and terror plots against commercial aviation.

The TSA said the benefit of using the technology is it "improves threat detection capabilities for both metallic and nonmetallic threat objects." In other words, the scanners can catch weapons hidden in clothes that a pat-down might miss.

The agency said it does not store any personally identifiable information from the body scanner, known as Advanced Imaging Technologies, or AIT.

Generally, passengers undergoing screening will have the option to decline AIT screening in favor of a pat-down. Some passengers... 1/2

— TSA (@TSA) December 22, 2015
...will still be required to undergo AIT screening as warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security. 2/2

— TSA (@TSA) December 22, 2015
The body scanners don't have the ability to store images, the TSA said. Instead the software issues an alarm and a TSA screening officer will physically screen the body area where an issue is detected. The software uses a generic image of a human body and not the person being screened, the TSA said.
 
Sucks. I've always opted out of their BS when traveling with the wife/kids. Now it seems like we all have to go through the machine, even if we opt out. Sure it says "some passengers will still be required" but without any additional information on what constitutes that, I'd expect the worse.

And of course, no uniform standard of rule application, and with no grievance/recall.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Sucks. I've always opted out of their BS when traveling with the wife/kids. Now it seems like we all have to go through the machine, even if we opt out. Sure it says "some passengers will still be required" but without any additional information on what constitutes that, I'd expect the worse.

And of course, no uniform standard of rule application, and with no grievance/recall.
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Ehh, it's fine. Many places outside of the US you're going through the scanner or you're not getting onboard your jet. Even if you're operating it.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
And of course, no uniform standard of rule application, and with no grievance/recall.
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The American people got what they cried for immediately post-9/11. Even though airport security was not an issue and was not breached on 9/11, with the hijackers going through security with items fully legal at the time. The American people cried for more security, and this window dressing of an agency is exactly what they got. Once created, bureaucracy is nearly impossible to kill.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
My experience with European airports has been far better. The TSA here is a security theater, just for the looks.
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It's not necessarily all that different. It's just that you can understand the comments here in the states! :)

Hating airport security is easy, just like comics that complained about, for years, "What's with the airline food? Why do they even call it food? Am I right? *ba doom doom TISSSSSS*"
 
MikeD said:
The American people got what they cried for immediately post-9/11. Even though airport security was not an issue and was not breached on 9/11, with the hijackers going through security with items fully legal at the time. The American people cried for more security, and this window dressing of an agency is exactly what they got. Once created, bureaucracy is nearly impossible to kill.
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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Sucks. I've always opted out of their BS when traveling with the wife/kids. Now it seems like we all have to go through the machine, even if we opt out. Sure it says "some passengers will still be required" but without any additional information on what constitutes that, I'd expect the worse.

And of course, no uniform standard of rule application, and with no grievance/recall.
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THIS!!! This IS BS!
I always opt out as well. The first time they "make" me go through the scanner I'm going to move or shift my arms or something to force them to stop and provide other screening.
 
MikeD said:
They'll send you to the far screening lane if you do that. The lane that is VFR-direct to Gitmo.
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Nawww, there's a fine line between non-conformity and non-compliance; and I know where that line is. I can dumbass them all day long.........
 
dustoff17 said:
Nawww, there's a fine line between non-conformity and non-compliance; and I know where that line is. I can dumbass them all day long.........
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Even though Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped a cop and made her point, whatever it was, it sure ended up being a very time inefficient way of staging a protest.
 
Not a fan, I guess I'll continue to put up with their BS because it's the law of the land.
 
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