3 troubling ways the TSA punishes passengers who opt out
If you don’t want to walk through a poorly tested full-body scanner you still have the right to opt out and submit to an “enhanced” pat-down.
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Is this the beginning of the end for the TSA’s full-body scanners?
To absolutely no one’s surprise, the mainstream media last week ignored a legitimate grassroots protest against the TSA’s allegedly invasive full-body scanners.
Is this the only way to change the TSA?
Here’s a question everyone should be asking after last week’s stunning verdict against Andrea Abbott, the Nashville mother who tried to stop TSA agents from patting down her teenage daughter: Where do travelers turn when they have a legitimate grievance against the agency charged with protecting America’s transportation systems?
How to kill the TSA’s full body scanners — once and for all
It started like it always does, just a few moments before I arrived at the airport. Except this time, the symptoms felt exponentially worse.
5 things you should never say to a TSA screener
It happened to Ann Holley again last week. As she passed through the security checkpoint at Atlanta’s busy airport, she asked a TSA agent to “opt out” of being screened by a full-body scanner.
Is “opt-out” always wrong? The Wall Street Journal doesn’t think so
Is pre-checking the box on an online transaction always unethical? I thought the answer to that question was obvious after the federal government weighed in on the issue, declaring it an “unfair and deceptive” practice, and the state of Minnesota fined two insurance companies for opt-out violations.
On travel sites, the pre-checked box checks out
The pre-checked box, a clever technique that travel companies use to extract a few dollars more from customers booking their trips online, may be checking out.
TSA denies it turned off body-scanners on “Opt-Out” Day — but where’s the proof?
Two weeks after declaring National Opt-Out Day a failure and renaming it TSA Appreciation Day, the agency charged with protecting our transportation systems has formally denied it turned off its full-body scanners in order to squelch the pre-Thanksgiving protests.
It’s time to say “no” to the TSA’s full body scanners
You may have though of saying “no” to the Transportation Security Administration’s new full-body scanners, too.
Hotel calls mandatory room safe fee a tax, requires you to opt out when checking in
Next time you check into the Fairfield Inn in Sandusky, Ohio, mind the safe in your room. They’ll add a $1.07 fee to your confirmed rate for having one — whether you want it or not.