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...Boarding. Continental Airlines has rolled out paperless boarding passes at New York's La Guardia Airport. Passengers with smartphones can get an encrypted electronic boarding pass sent to their device, which a TSA agent reads using a handheld scanner. (You'll still need your old school ID to pass through.) The program is already in use by Continental passengers in Houston, Washington, D.C., Newark, Boston, Austin, San Antonio and Cleveland. Likewise, for Northwest passengers in Indianapolis and Delta fliers at La Guardia. Alaska Airlines is piloting the program at Seattle-Tacoma Airport...
...Transportation Security Administration, in a major security upgrade, is installing 38 full-body scanners at 10 U.S. airports that will allow agents to see through clothing. In response to privacy (and decency) concerns, the TSA says the device will blur subjects' faces and delete the images once they are checked...
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials say Brown's arrest was not a stroke of luck: the officer who tagged Brown was trained in reading body language and behavior detection, specifically in sensing micro-expressions on a person's face. On Tuesday at Orlando, the first security officer to see Brown found his behavior "immediately suspicious," said TSA spokesman Christopher White. White said that Brown continued to act suspiciously while he was watched for the next 30 minutes...
...TSA's White says 1,000 trained officers are deployed in more than 40 airports with the number expected to double in a year. Since the behavior detection program went national in 2006, White said 102,914 travelers have been tagged for further screening; 9,142 have been referred to a law enforcement agency; 682 people have been arrested and another 925 remain under investigation. Many of those arrested have been charged with drug or currency smuggling or immigration violations. As the numbers show, behavior detection remains an art, not a science. "I can see them pulling Woody Allen...
Percentage of fake bombs missed at San Francisco international airport, which employs private screeners, not TSA employees...