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TSA's Scanners Can't Figure Out Afros or Turbans, Guess Who's Getting Searched
- rory096 7y agoTechdirt link is a reblog of this ProPublica piece: https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-ag...
- JasonFruit 7y agoThe only important point of this article is that the TSA is worthless and an affront to free people. The point that prompted the article is a canard, and what little point the article has is smothered in gallons of snark.
- glenda 7y agoAs a man with long hair (and a dark-ish complexion), they are constantly requesting to search through my hair at the airport. It feels like an absurd request every time, especially since most women with long hair aren't being searched in the same manner.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 7y agoLike that scene from Goodfellas, where Tommy's wife smuggled those diamonds in.
- cydonian_monk 7y agoAs a lily-white redheaded bearded guy of Irish descent, I stopped flying (and going to baseball games) because I was consistently being "randomly" selected for whatever new xray machine + rub down + run a pick through my beard + wands everywhere invasive search the TSA decided to implement that week. Just not worth paying a thousand or more dollars to be harassed and threatened.
- jjeaff 7y agoDo you think it was the beard? Is this a really big beard? I've never heard of people getting selected more often because of a beard.
- cydonian_monk 7y agoWho knows. I'm not really sure and I never asked either (not that they'd tell me). It's not a particularly long beard. Maybe I just look suspicious to them.
- sombremesa 7y agoTSA is just a political instrument. If you get TSA pre-check, you can skip most of the theatrics. But wait, now they also have a thing called "CLEAR"[1], because I guess they didn't make enough money from pre-check. Making matters worse, it's a private company! [1] https://www.clearme.com/ https://www.clearme.com/
- jsjohnst 7y agoCLEAR is a third party company and in no way replaces TSA. I have both Pre-check and CLEAR, I still must go through TSA, I just don’t have to stand in a long identity document verification line.
- sombremesa 7y agoSince I never said that CLEAR replaces TSA, I'm not sure what you're on about. That being said, I'm pretty sure CLEAR includes TSA pre-check in practice, even though they seem to vehemently deny this in theory.
- jsjohnst 7y ago> because I guess they didn't make enough money from pre-check. You said that, but then later added the “private company” part after I pointed it out, so that’s what I’m “on about”. > I'm pretty sure CLEAR includes TSA pre-check in practice Nope, if you don’t have pre-check (either the actual membership or the airline sponsored version), you have to go through the standard TSA line. No exceptions. The only benefit to CLEAR is jumping the ID inspection line, nothing after the initial officer changes. Anything else you want to be proven wrong about so you can then berate me after editing your post?
- jjeaff 7y agoMaybe the point of TSA is to just make it so horrible that eventually everyone who wants to travel will get pre-check. Because legislation requiring extensive background checks and keeping details like photos and fingerprints of every person in America that wants to fly would be more difficult to get passed. So they just make it "optional".