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Source: CBC

"Never suggest, ask or demand that passengers remove footwear prior to entering the WTMD [walk-through metal detector]," says the one-page directive, which went into effect immediately.

Source: Indianas News Center

Airport security is about to get more personal. Starting this Saturday, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will require passengers to provide their full name, date of birth and gender when booking all domestic and international flights.

Transportation Security Administration is responsible for administrating the security through the United States. However, they aren't making our airports safer. It's just a show put on to make passengers feel safer.

Source: JPost.com

"Ilan Chaim ("Illusion of Security," March 29) claimed that security in US airports offers inadequate protection against potential terror attacks.

Source: Wired News

The TSA is withholding the name of the test airlines for murky "security reasons" — likely a code word for bad publicity, but the airlines should be easily identifiable since they are likely the only ones asking for passengers' dates of birth.

Source: Times of the Internet

The pilot was asked to take off his shoes and belt like everyone -- but completely lost the plot, the source said. He pulled down his trousers and pants to completely expose himself, then turned to the security guard and asked angrily, 'Do you want to search this?'

Source: The New York Times

There have always been special queues for first-class check-in and boarding. Those are part of a private transaction between an airline and a customer. But two-tiered security checks are a different story. Airport security, after all, is not a business transaction.

Source: msnbc.com

Egyptian authorities denied entry to one of Osama bin Laden's sons and put him on a plane to Qatar on Sunday, becoming the third country to reject the self-proclaimed "ambassador for peace."

Her name is Helen, a Muslim woman in her mid-twenties. She's scared to talk to me even though I've told her that I will change her name for my article so the authorities will have no idea who she is.

Source: msnbc.com

Gun-rights groups are appealing a federal judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to allow licensed gun owners to pack heat in parts of the world's busiest airport.

Source: the Mail online

It sounds like the stuff of science-fiction nightmare. But experts say a new scanner which can read minds is the next step in fighting terrorism. Inventors also claim it will slash queuing times at airports - and bring an end to a ban on liquids.

Source: CBC

A Quebec businessman whose name is one of the many that have erroneously landed on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's flight passenger watch list has decided to change his name to avoid lengthy security hassles at the airport.

Source: omg.yahoo.com

... the paparazzo was attempting to photograph the rap star, when Kanye allegedly confronted the photographer, grabbing his camera and smashing it to the ground. Airport security intervened... later releasing them both.

Source: conventiontrip.com

While there's not much good news (if any) on fees being reduced, some changes at our airports may make traveling a little less stressful and time-consuming.

Source: Telegraph

Thousands of passengers are already being scanned in a trial being carried out at two airports. However if the trials prove successful, ministers want the machines to replace most front line airport immigration officer over the next five years.

Source: CBC

An airport at Kelowna, BC, is using a new scanner that literally allows security workers to see passengers naked.Of course , everyone is assured these "nude pictures" will be quickly deleted from the files after it is ascertained the passengers aren't secreting bombs and such on …

Source: Pajamas Media

"Israel is considered to have the most effective airport security measures anywhere in the world. So convinced are they of the benevolence of people they allow to board their planes, first class passengers are given steak knives with their meals.