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More Airports Set to Install TSA ‘Detention Pods’



Devices that critics liken to cattle grids have biometric capabilities

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 6, 2013

A new Transportation Security Administration directive that mandates airports provide security for terminal exits is likely to lead to the installation of more ‘detention pods’ which have the capability of subjecting travelers to biometric scans.


“Airports across the country have sued to block a new Transportation Security Administration directive that requires them, starting Jan. 1, to begin guarding exit security doors, as passengers leave flights and head for baggage claims,” reports the Associated Press.

The article notes that in order to comply with the regulation and save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in staffing, airports may follow the example set by Atlantic City International, which has “installed five cylinder-shaped glass exit portals since 2009.”

These ‘detention pods’, which temporarily hold a traveler inside the portal until a green light and a voice command signals that the person can leave, have been compared to cattle grids by critics who see them as another way in which travelers are treated as prisoners inside the airport. According to Karen De Coster, the pods are a way “to remind you that you are a captive” and are “meant to make you feel like a prisoner who cannot leave.”

The detention pods, which are also in place at Syracuse International Airport, “were designed and approved by TSA,” according to Syracuse Airport Commissioner Christina Callahan.

Travelers have expressed confusion at the necessity of the pods. “I don’t understand those doors,” Cindy Katz, of Jupiter, Fla. told the Boston Globe. “What are they supposed to do? It slows everyone down.” The article also notes how some are concerned about “being scanned somehow while closed inside.”

Mindy Carpenter, who was waiting for friends to arrive at the airport complained, “It just took so long for the four of them to come through.”

The report adds that the detention pods “could be the wave of things to come,” and that their manufacturer, Eagle Security Group, is currently in talks with other airports.

As we previously highlighted, although the devices currently in use do not (at least publicly) utilize any kind of scanning technology, the pods do have biometric and object-detecting capabilities, meaning in the future Americans could face yet another stifling level of security simply to leave the airport.

A video demonstration of the devices shows a user biometrically scanning his fingerprint before he is allowed to leave the containment area.

“The identity of the user is guaranteed via fingerprint, iris or facial recognition scans before they are allowed to complete their passage from non-secure to secure areas. The Eagle ACP (Access Control Portal) with integrated biometrics of your choice is a complete solution,” states the company’s website.

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This article was posted: Friday, December 6, 2013 at 6:53 am

You know, if my goal was to figure out how to make air travel as humiliating and degrading as possible, I couldn't do any better than the TSA. Kudos. Viva police state!

How is this making airplanes safer? Oh, wait....I guess it isn't.

[GS Ragtop]

The company I used to work for made those kinds of controlled entry/egress security vestibules. Just about anyone in that business designed the *capability* of scanning for all kinds of things -- biometrics, metal, and even explosive device sniffers. Sounds like the TSA bought plain-Jane vestibules without any fancy capabilities.

A big problem with security vestibules is throughput. The Italians have the most experience with this technology and deploy vestibules in many retail stores. Even the best designs over there only allow approximately 20-25 people through in 60 seconds.

TSA had the brain their behind if they think its a good idea to install these vestibules in mass transit areas where hundreds to thousands of people congregate - imagine the crush and trampling injuries if something triggered a panic in a terminal. Idiots.

[DAB]

Like a fire alarm.

Or a terrorist shooting peeps just outside the clean area.

....

[GS Ragtop]

Originally Posted by DAB

Like a fire alarm.

Or a terrorist shooting peeps just outside the clean area.

....

On fire alarm, the mechanism for locking must be bypassed or you can't pass code.

The shooting thing -- or someone *thinking* there's a shooting -- is what scares me about the regulation. This is a very, very bad idea.

[99 pewtercoupe]

Sometimes Im convinced that the true purspose of the TSA is just to reduce the number of people willing to fly and put up with their bull shitz.

Between the airlines and the TSA, commercial flying has become such a pain in the ass that I hate flying anymore

[86RAG]

But, but, they are just trying to keep us safe...right?

[69camfrk]

Flying commercial is a straight up pain in the ass. The .gov gets nothing right, and that's the reason our country is in the shape it's in.

[Sea Six]

Feck flying. I just don't do it anymore.

Take a few days, drive, see the country, talk to its people. It's worth it.