85-year-old, 110-lb grandmother strip-searched by TSA at JFK

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Lenore Zimmerman, 85, shows injury she says came during strip search by security at JFK Airport.

An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport.

Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort Lauderdale when security [...]

December 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

TSA to pull plug on naked scanners and introduce scanners that only display hidden objects and show a generic human form

Say goodbye to naked scanner images.

The Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday that it will begin installing software to allow  airport scanners to show objects hidden under the clothes of passengers without creating what appears to be a naked digital image of the travelers.

The full-body scanners now operating at 78 airports across the country use low levels of radiation to look through the clothing of screened [...]

July 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment