‘Fed Up’ Travelers, Unions Balk at Airport Body Scans
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Tension at U.S. airports between security and privacy may peak Nov. 24, one of the year’s busiest travel days, with a protest over growing use of full-body X-rays and of extensive pat-downs for those who reject the scans.
That date, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, is National Opt-Out Day for several groups urging passengers to avoid the scanners and to slow the screening by choosing a physical search. Organizers and some airline labor unions object to the radiation exposure and detailed view of bodies, and also call the pat-downs an unwarranted invasion of privacy.