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I doubt that's even possible. US airports don't have much to say in terms of TSA presence. US security services have shown very poor judgment on multiple occas
by hastur 15y ago
I doubt that's even possible. US airports don't have much to say in terms of TSA presence.
US security services have shown very poor judgment on multiple occasions, in Canada now you're a child pornography supporter if you don't like internet surveillance and in UK you get extradited to US like a terrorist if you link to pirated content.
My advice: Steer away from Anglo-Saxon countries. Continental Europe and Brazil are the only reasonable places if you want to live in a civilized world.
- jbrun 15y agoWe are putting up a pretty good fight here in Canada to keep it 'civilized', though there is some nasty lawful access legislation being discussed.
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- bmj 15y agoAre TSA security services free[1]? Or does the airport pay for the government presence, too? [1] That is, does a TSA airport pay out of pocket specifically for the TSA staff, or is it a service of Homeland Security (and funded by tax dollars, exclusively)?
- hastur 15y agoI don't know but I very much doubt that airports pay for TSA staff. At worst, airports provide electricity for all the equipment, like scanners, and don't make any money off the space used up by TSA (screening rooms, etc).
- khuey 15y agoThere are fees on airline tickets in the US that pay for TSA services. Whether that is their sole source of funding or not I don't know. I imagine that at least some of the renovations that have been done at various airports to house larger screening facilities have been paid for out of general tax dollars.
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- wmeredith 15y agoAirports can opt out of TSA services if they hire private security. Wikipedia link from the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#History_and_organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Adminis...
- jbarham 15y agoI hear Greece is cheap nowadays.