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sokolofflast Monday at 3:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Anywhere that US TSA runs the AIT scanners, you can opt out of them*.

That is domestic US airports plus airports like Toronto and Dublin where you, for practical purposes, clear into the US on foreign soil and land in the US as a domestic flight.

* - I think this only doesn't apply if your boarding pass got tagged with the dreaded "SSSS" enhanced screening tag, but that's a fairly rare corner case for most passengers.


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yencabulatorlast Monday at 7:09 PM

My understanding, which may be wrong. It's been a few years since I did this dance.

You can opt out of the millimeter wave radar.

Opting out means you go through a metal detector, a 20-second pat-down and perhaps a hand swab for explosives sniffer.

If you have SSSS on your boarding card, that means the pat-down, hand swab and digging through your carry-on luggage happen whether you opt out of the mmwave or not.

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