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• TSA nominee questioned over FBI censure

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  TSA nominee questioned over FBI censure : Via washingtonpost.com . Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned President Obamas nominee to lead the nations airport security agency Tuesday about a censure he received from the FBI in 1988. Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the ...
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• TSA faces new limits on screening “unrelated to transportation security”

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  TSA was forced to change their procedures for handling non-terrorist and non-airplane safety issues at their checkpoints. Last March, Steve Bierfeldt, a fundraiser for Rep. Ron Paul, was stopped while carrying $4,500 through airport security in a lock box. He refused to tell TSA why he had the money and where he got ...
  3 days ago

• Orange

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 126
  DISCLAIMER: A work of fiction. Resemblances to living persons, or extant organizations, are for satirical purposes, or are coincidental. ================= The threat level, as determined by the Department of Homeland Security, is orange . Please report all suspicious activity to airport personnel ...
  4 days ago

• Lambert incident leads to revised TSA screening rules

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 613
  WASHINGTON — Transportation Security Administration screeners at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport probably wish that the fellow they chose to grill last March about a box of cash wasn’t a Ron Paul devotee who runs a committee devoted to individual rights and constitutional government. But grill ...
  4 days ago

• TSA Tells Airport Screeners to Stick to Weapons and Explosives

  
  WSJ.com: The Middle Seat Terminal — Authority: 119
  The ACLU will drop a suit against the Transportation Security Administration over whether TSA screeners can search travelers for crimes unrelated to air safety.
  4 days ago

• TSA is secretly watching you

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  Our only concerns with peeping TSA folk are not at the full-body screening machines, they are also with secret personnel whose job it is to simply sit and watch passengers. These detection officers have the power to command that passengers go through additional screening just because they dont like the way the ...
  5 days ago

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  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  
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• Man Arrested Trying To Board Plane With Loaded Gun

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  The WHEC I-Team 10 reports that they have learned a man recently tried to board a plane at the Rochester international airport with a loaded gun in his carry-on bag. The man didn’t get far according to the report. .When you go through the security checkpoint at the airport, it’s hard to miss the warning [...] This ...
  1 week ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-06

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 118
  [Post from Infoglide ] The Other Half of Entity Resolution “In a recent post, Jonathan McDonald quotes one definition of entity resolution: ‘According to Gartner, entity resolution is ‘the capability to resolve multiple labels for individuals, products or other noun classes of data into a single resolved ...
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• Behavior Detection Officers Keeping A Watchful Eye On Airports

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Although you probably couldn’t spot one of the if you tried, chances are they spotted you if you were exhibiting suspicious behavior in one of over 160 U.S airports.To identify dangerous people, the Transportation Security Administration has stationed specially trained Behavior Detection Officers at 161 U.S. ...
  1 week ago

• About That Drink: Yet Again, TSA, Airports Give Britney Spears Special Treatment

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 622
  By Debbie SchlusselI don’t know about you.  But in traveling by plane, I’ve had to throw out lip gloss, bottled water, a shampoo bottle that was over three ounces, and a perfectly good, sealed bottle of orange juice, all because the TSA told me to.  I know the rules are absurd and won’t stop a [...]
  1 week ago

• On the Road: By Any Other Name, You May Not Fly

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Under a new government program, Secure Flight, names on travel documents must exactly match names on IDs like passports.
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• Deadline Looming – How Will Airline Cargo Get Screened

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Here’s the dilemma. By next August, every piece of freight that is shipped aboard a commercial airline will be required to be screened for bombs just as luggage already is. The catch? There are not enough screeners to scan the thousands of tons of cargo that will need to be scanned.Airlines, the U.S. Transportation ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Secure Flight requirement comes into force on flights to USA

  
  Aviation news - Planegrazy — Authority: 122
  The Secure Flight requirement of the US Transportation Security Administration(TSA) obliges airlines to collect Secure Flight passenger information fromindividuals travelling to/from/via the USA from 31 October. In connection with the flight booking, passengers must declare their full namejust as it appears in their ...
  2 weeks ago

• TSA Hopes To Keep Terrorists Off-Guard With Security Checks

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  Hoping to keep terrorists and others off-guard the TSA conducted a random security check of nearly 700 Bus passengers in Orlando Florida yesterday, using the agency’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response, or VIPR.Bryce Williams wasn’t expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Full-body scanners banned for kids in U.K., likened to child porn

  
  Turnip Style Dot Com — Authority: 152
  While the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems intent on scanning everyone with whole-body scanners that strip passengers naked, officials in the U.K. have decided to limit the use of these strip-search machines by forbidding their use on children.
  3 weeks ago

• Full-body scanners banned for kids in U.K., likened to child porn

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  While the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems intent on scanning everyone with whole-body scanners that strip passengers naked, officials in the U.K. have decided to limit the use of these strip-search machines by forbidding their use on children.
  3 weeks ago

• TSA Successfully Defends Itself

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  TSA Successfully Defends Itself : Via Schneier on Security . Story here . Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying. There was a similar story in 2007. Then, I wrote : Why is it that we all -- ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Refresher On Airline Security

  
  Offbeat Guides Blog — Authority: 119
  Travel isn’t the same as it used to be. Certainly one of the most noticeable changes, especially when it comes to flying in the post-9/11 world, is the sometimes arduous process of getting through security lines at the airport. You’ll hear people complain and criticize the system for being inefficient, for being ...
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  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  
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