But an agency spokesperson told Quartz via email that mandatory scans for passengers who would prefer to opt out “will occur in a very limited number of circumstances where enhanced screening is required.
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The Associated Press AP Photo/Jon Super Members of staff are seen demonstrating a new full body security. The new policy directs that passengers who opt out will “generally” be allowed to choose a physical screening over a body scan, but the TSA now has the ability to require any passenger to be body scanned “as warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security.”Ĭiting “security reasons,” the TSA was unable to provide Quartz with an example of what a “warranted security consideration” might be. JFK Airport tries out full-body scanners. Hello millimeter waves, goodbye, TSA porn The TSA has officially announced they'll be trading backscatter technology machines out of. Previously, anyone who did not wish to be analyzed by the body scanners could opt for a procedure that involved a pat-down from a TSA agent. Full body scanners are on their way out of New York airports. At a November congressional hearing, the TSA said it had spent 140. She eventually surrendered to security agents at John F. 18, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a ”Privacy Impact Assessment Update” announcing (pdf) the change in policy. Moving through a scanner with cartoon-figure images takes 12 seconds, compared with 80 seconds for a pat-down, the TSA says. Todays airport security scanners are, in more general terms, known as body scanners.
Some US air travelers will no longer be able to opt out of going through the body scanners at TSA checkpoints.
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