Airport Security

It’s always exciting when the TSA adds new airlines to its list of participants in TSA PreCheck. It means not having to stand on the “regular” queue at the airport, …

The TSA was developed in the days after 9/11, to prevent another attack that was along the same lines of that tragedy. Some of the hoops we, as passengers, need …

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 …

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 …

Over 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 …

As 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 …

No 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 …