Sacramento International Airport Offers New Biometric Scan Express Lane
By Tony Bizjak Sacramento International Airport announced Thursday it has become the fourth California airport to allow passengers to skip the initial part of the…
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TSA To Slap Mask Mandate Violators With $1,500 Fines
By Tyler Durden Mask up on planes, or the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will slap travelers with hundreds of dollars in fines. Repeat offenders could…
TSA Tries Out Another (Illegal) Biometric “ID Verification” System
By Edward Hasbrouck The new “touchless ID verification” stations at DCA include a webcam (at top center of photo above) a magnetic-stripe reader (lower left)…
The TSA Is Secretly Conducting Risk Assessments Of Americans Using Mass Transit
By MassPrivateI A recent UPI article revealed how the Government Accountability Office (GAO) wants TSA inspectors to give risk assessments to America’s entire transportation network….
TSA Tries Again to Impose an ID Requirement to Fly
By Edward Hasbrouck Air travel in the US has been reduced by more than 90%, measured by the numbers of people passing through checkpoints at…
TSA To Check Passengers’ Temperature At Airports
By Tyler Durden The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin checking passengers’ temperatures at select airports next week. People familiar with the matter told The…
Fighting Back Against Face Surveillance in the Skies: 2019 Year in Review
By Jason Kelley While cities and municipalities made clear strides to limit the use of face surveillance technology throughout 2019, airlines and government agencies tasked…
This Holiday Season, Thank DHS Employees For Volunteering To Separate Kids From Their Families
Op-Ed by MassPrivateI What is left of a once-free country is slowly being turned into a real-life version of East Germany complete with its own…
Airports of the Future: Surveillance by Design
By Edward Hasbrouck As we’ve seen in the ongoing debate over biometric identification of travelers at Sea-Tac Airport, and as we’ve seen before elsewhere, airlines…
TSA Pulls 90-Year-Old Woman from Wheelchair, Forcibly Grope Her Breasts in Full Public View — Lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — (TRI) The Rutherford Institute has come to the aid of an elderly Delaware woman who has alleged that Transportation Security Administration (TSA)…
Rejecting Challenge to No Fly List, Federal Appeals Court Leaves Men Charged With No Crime “In an Indefinite Kafkaesque Nightmare”
By Andrea Germanos A ruling by a federal court Monday drew the ire of the ACLU after siding with the U.S. government and rejecting a…
U.S. Senator Calls For Halting TSA Facial Recognition In Airports As Tech Rolls Out In Schools Nationwide
By Aaron Kesel A U.S. Senator called for an end to facial recognition in airports due to lack of oversight on the technology. Meanwhile, facial…
Do I Need ID to Ride a Train?
By Edward Hasbrouck We’ve been trying for years to find out what the real story is with respect to ID requirements for travel by train,…
Groped by the TSA? #MeToo And FINALLY We Can Sue
By Dagny Taggart Last Friday, a US federal appeals court sided with the people – finally. The court ruled that travelers can sue the Transportation…