The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is reportedly testing new safety procedures that require airline passengers to remove books from their carry-on bags when going through security lines, raising privacy concerns.
The Week reported that the TSA began testing the new security requirement for books and other paper products at airports in Missouri and California earlier this month. The new screening process requires passengers to remove all reading material and food from their carry-ons and place them in a bin.
Travelers already have to remove laptops from carry-on bags and place them in a separate bin. The new policy would let TSA employees flip through books to see if anything is hidden in their pages.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday” in late May that the department would “likely” expand the new carry-on policy nationwide.
“What we’re doing now is working out the tactics, techniques, and procedures, if you will, in a few airports, to find out exactly how to do that with the least amount of inconvenience to the traveler,” Kelly said at the time.
The American Civil Liberties Organization (ACLU) raised concerns over the new policy in a recent post on its website.
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TSA considers forcing airline passengers to remove books from carry-ons https://t.co/nWaF6ilxXZ pic.twitter.com/WI6MP7pHUk
— The Hill (@thehill) June 25, 2017
Oh boy! More stuff for TSA agents to steal:
This is ridiculous.
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