Admit it, you don’t care what the TSA does to you anymore!
The TSA is having a heckuva summer. From a new “trusted” traveler system it’s pushing on passengers, to a peculiar new rule.
PRE-CHECK
Losing TSA Pre-Check is easy, but just try getting it back
The TSA can’t stop talking about its new Pre-Check program, it offers air travelers preferred screening status.
Is the TSA’s PreCheck program ready for what comes next?
The Transportation Security Administration’s vaunted new PreCheck system, which offers selected air travelers access to expedited security screening, is hurtling toward its first big test: a crowd of spring break passengers, quickly followed by a crush of inexperienced summer vacationers.
TSA’s new Pre-Check programs raises major privacy concerns
When the Transportation Security Administration’s Pre-Check formally launches sometime this fall, its trusted-traveler program will already have the enthusiastic endorsement of frequent travelers — and an equally enthusiastic denouncement from privacy advocates.
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.
7 things you’ll love about the TSA
Special Agent Robert Flaherty knocked on my front door and handed me a subpoena. Nothing to love about the TSA, but they are wrong.
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.