One of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughters said she experienced an “absurdly invasive” pat-down Thursday at an airport security checkpoint and suggested her father would limit or eliminate the Transportation Security Administration if it was under his authority.

Evita Duffy-Alfonso said on the social platform X that she nearly missed her flight after opting out of a body scan because she said she is pregnant and concerned about radiation exposure. She said she waited 15 minutes for a pat-down and that TSA agents were “rude” and “tried to pressure” her into walking through the scanner.

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[–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Many people are unaware of the technology that goes into millimeter wave scanners, and although harmless physically, they are quite invasive in a privacy sense (by definition), and I don’t criticize her for refusing to use one, even if by faulty reasoning.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I'm thinking its also confusion about the backscatter X-ray machines that were used before the millimeter wave scanners replaced them in most places. I had heard some small airports still use the backscatter machines.

    I still take the patdown instead of the millimeter wave scanners when I'm randomly selected for more scrutiny than the bog standard metal detector.

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