On: $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed as Ineffective Junk Science

[adrianhoward]

I'm just glad that I seem to have passed through whatever set of factors that caused me to be "randomly" selected every time I entered the US for years on end.

[chrisBob → adrianhoward]

Do you usually dress the same, and go through the full body scanners? My wife was upset that she got patted down every time at logan, and then she looked at the display and found out that the TSA didn't like the buttons on the hoodie she liked to fly in. Now she just wears the grey one instead of the red one and flies through every time.

[adrianhoward → chrisBob]

This happened pre-TSA and pre-body scanners too.

Literally every time I went UK->US 1996 to 2010 I got "randomly" selected by some/all of immigration, security, and customs. I can only assume I looked/behaved dodgy in some way, was on some kind of list, or was just darn unlucky!

Incidents within the EU. Zero.

I've only just got the point where I've stopped scheduling a couple of extra hours of security-slack into my travel schedule ;-)

[JoeAltmaier → adrianhoward]

Maybe it was something you habitually wore, triggering the scanner to single you out (as another poster in this thread had happen).

[nhayden → chrisBob]

You can opt out and this won't be a problem. Tell them you can't lift your arms over your head and they won't even pat you down.