AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
body scanners
Legislation Would Make Sharing TSA's Body Scan Images a Crime
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsProposed new legislation would protect travelers who worry that images taken of them by airport scanners could end up on the Internet. An amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill would make it a crime to share images taken by the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanners, which produce graphic images of the human body. Those found guilty of violating the Security Screening Confidential Data Privacy Act, legislation being co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, could spend up to a year in prison ...
Donna D'Errico to Climb Mount Ararat in Search of Noah's Ark
By David Moye - AOL NewsFormer "Baywatch" star Donna D'Errico has enjoyed a pretty amazing career arc. But the 42-year-old actress, who recently turned down a spot on "Dancing With the Stars," is now focusing on Noah's ark. D'Errico, 42, is in training to fulfill a lifelong dream of climbing Mount Ararat in Turkey to search for the frozen remains of Noah's ark. According to Biblical legend, the ark was built centuries ago to protect Noah's family and two of every kind of animal during a flood lasting 40 days and 40 nights. After the great flood, the ark supposedly landed atop the mountain. Many believers have ...
A Few Facts About TSA's Full-Body Scanners
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsHow the Transportation Security Administration explains its two full-body scanners: Backscatter technology projects an ionizing X-ray beam over the body surface at high speed. The reflection, or "backscatter," of the beam is detected, digitized and displayed on a monitor. Each full body scan produces less than 10 microrem of emission, the equivalent to the exposure each person receives in about two minutes of airplane flight at 30,000 feet. It produces an image that resembles a chalk etching. Millimeter wave technology bounces harmless electromagnetic waves off of the human body to ...
Expert: Scanner Training More Intense Outside of US
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsThe full-body scanners have either been deployed, or are being seriously considered for use, in Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Nigeria, India, South Africa and most of the European Union. In those countries, the personnel are extensively trained and understand radiation, how the X-ray devices work and what can happen if the calibrations are wrong, according to an international radiation safety expert. Related Stories AOL Investigation: No Proof TSA Scanners Are Safe A Few Facts About TSA's Full-Body Scanners By comparison, ...
AOL Investigation: No Proof TSA Scanners Are Safe
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsIf you believe the government, you have little to worry about from the radiation beam flitting over the front and back of your body in airport watchdogs' search for explosives and other hidden implements of terror this holiday season. The Transportation Security Administration says that when working properly, the backscatter Advance Imaging Technology X-ray scanners emit an infinitesimal, virtually harmless amount of radiation. The problem is that the TSA offers no proof that anyone is checking to see if the machines are "working properly." The TSA ticks off a litany of groups that it says ...
National Opt Out Day in Washington: Little Impact at Reagan National Airport
By Tey-Marie Astudillo - Politics DailyA grassroots movement against the Transportation Security Administration's new body scanners appeared to have little effect on holiday travel Wednesday at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. Click play below to watch a video report: ...
While 'Opt-Out Day' Fizzles, Detained Passenger Mystery Goes Unnoticed
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 24) -- Forget "National Opt-Out Day." It turns out that while those touchy pat-downs and scandalous body scans continued to make headlines Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration was involved in hotter pursuits. After unknown authorities removed two mystery men from a US Airways flight in Denver on Tuesday, the agency confirmed to AOL News Surge Desk that the TSA was tipped off about a passenger "acting suspiciously" and met the plane on the ground in Denver along with "law enforcement." Surge Desk reported Tuesday that two passengers had been removed by agents who had ...
Travelers Opt Out of 'National Opt-Out Day'
By Mara Gay - AOL News
NEW YORK (Nov. 24) -- "National Opt-Out Day" was a bust. Thanksgiving travelers greeted body scanners with open arms -- and bare feet -- at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport today, in an anti-climactic end to weeks of speculation over whether Americans would use the busiest travel day of the year to express their intense displeasure with the Transportation Security Administration. "If you're an adult and people haven't seen your junk by now, then get over it," Virginia Watson, 52, told AOL News before heading for the body scanner and boarding a flight from JFK to Los Angeles. ...
Airport Security: Choose One
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
The Barbed Wire Airport: Is America Afflicted with Security Fatigue?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyOnce an airline triumphantly advertised itself Don Draper-style as "The Wings of Man." Now getting to the airline gate subjects you to the shackles of security. The barbed wire airport and the shoeless security lines are assaults on dignity and privacy that Americans have sullenly accepted out of fear of far more deadly assaults. No joking, no back talk, just pit-of-your-stomach trepidation that a bleeping buzzer combined with a suspicious TSA guard will trap you in security purgatory while your plane takes off. Related Stories My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics