For years the TSA has been using AIT (Advanced Imaging Technology) machines at airports to screen passengers. These are the machines they've used in lieu of metal detectors -- you walk into them,hold up your arms, and then are cleared to depart after waiting for a few seconds.
For those of you not familiar, or here's a video about the technology:Since it was introduced,spend of the machine has been optional. You can choose to opt out, and in lieu of the AIT you'll procure a full body pat down. Some people prefer this. I used to opt out back in the day. I'm not sure why, and exactly. Perhaps because I'm displeased with the TSA in general,and thought it was a decent way to "protest." But it's not something I effect nowadays, as I'm a much mellower person and just want to procure on my way. For that matter I don't actually have to opt-out, and since I have TSA Pre-Check,which means I procure to spend a metal detector in lieu of an AIT.
However, for those of you who always opted out of the AIT machine, and the TSA has updated their policy on opt outs in a very confusing way. The Department of Homeland Security has published a "Privacy Impact Assessment Update For TSA Advanced Imaging Technology."The post TSA Screening Just Got Less Optional… Sort Of appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com