Monday, November 15, 2010

Coming To An Airport Near You-Very Intrusive Body Scanners

Ever increasingly annoying, inconsistent, and intrusive procedures continue to be rolled out at U.S. Airports.

The latest is the full body-scan radiation and x-ray technology that TSA has started implementing. Some scientists and two major airline pilots unions contend not enough is known about the effects of the small doses of X-ray radiation emitted by one of the two types of airport scanning machines.

Anything that emits radiation and has x-ray features should be well researched before the traveling public is subjected to it.

Wildly inconsistent procedures from one airport to another also remains an issue and a some of those TSA procedures have become arbitrary and subjective. For instance, a TSA employee insisted on removing "anything metallic" regardless of how small it is. This requirement was not mentioned on the return flight a day later.


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