While privacy experts in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and other countries are concerned about the issues surrounding biometrics and the recent arrest of an airline passenger in the U.S. due …
Airport Security
-
-
As the TSA adds more and more Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) units to the country’s airports, it means less and less people have to show their boarding passes to TSA …
-
Airports
TSA Facial Recognition Technology Leads to Woman’s Arrest at Airport
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegOver the past several years, the TSA has been testing facial recognition at more and more airports. These specialized scanners, called CAT-2 units, incorporate facial recognition technology by taking real-time …
-
There are 2 types of people in the world – those who try to follow the rules as best as they can and do what’s expected of them, and those …
-
Airports
Thank TikTok For The Latest Reason for TSA Checkpoint Slowdowns
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegAs if the TSA security checkpoint isn’t slow enough… #rolleyes There are all the people…SO. MANY. PEOPLE. Over 858 million in 2023 alone (and we’re averaging 10% higher than that …
-
Over the past year, my experiences with CLEAR and those of my wife, Sharon, have been complicated. While we’ve found our membership incredibly helpful to get into Madison Square Garden …
-
Airports
7 Activities That Could Earn You a Secondary TSA Security Screening
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegNo one wants to spend any more time at the TSA security checkpoint than they have to. That’s why we’ve given so much advice about that very thing over the …
-
In the years after 9/11, and especially after an incident on Northwest Airlines flight 253 in 2009, the TSA began introducing “backscatter” screening machines made by Rapiscan. They were the …
-
I think we can all agree that when we bring a carry-on bag onto a plane, being limited to as many 3.4-ounce or less bottles of liquids, gels, pastes, etc., …
-
There are 4 letters no one wants to see on their boarding pass: SSSS. If you use your search engine of choice (I don’t recommend Google; Google is broken) to …