Articles Tagged with ''security screening''

Eighty-seven percent of frequent flyers think that the Transportation Security Administration is doing either a poor or fair job in performing security screenings at the nation's airports.

Security on Europe's rail networks will be stepped up with cross-border armed patrols and increased spot checks on trains.

Canada will soon collect fingerprints and digital photos from all foreigners traveling on a visa.

Maintenance of explosive detecting scanners and x-ray machines at the U.S. airport security checkpoints are not being managed properly.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that workers who fill orders in Amazon.com warehouses need not be paid for the time they spend in security lines at the end of their shifts to make sure they haven’t stolen any products.

The Senate passed a bill that limits airline security fees.

A new study says that asking airline passengers open-ended, conversational questions is 20 times more successful at catching deceptive passengers than the screening method traditionally used in the U.S. and other countries. 

According to a study from the National Center for Credibility Assessment, programs using computer-generated interviews can be less “time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly to the Federal Government,” and that interview subjects are more likely to admit certain things to a robot, such as alcohol use and mental health.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a wide-ranging gun bill into law.

A strike by security staff at the Frankfurt Germany airport caused nearly 50 flight cancellations and delayed thousands of passengers.