TSA adopts a new rule to extract 'size of electronic equipment over mobile phone' at airport security inspection

ByChris Dunphy

For safety inspection before entering an airplane, it is necessary to take out the notebook PC from the bag and pass it through the X-ray inspection device. In order to further strengthen safety inspections, the US Transportation Security Agency (TSA) also found out that it is obliged to obligate "electronic equipment over a cellular phone size" individually through X-ray inspection equipment.

The TSA will now require separate screenings for all electronics 'larger than a cell phone' - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/26/16034694/tsa-xray-screening-electronics-tablets-laptops-game

In the security inspection of the airport, it is necessary to put the bags, belts, coats and the like on separate boxes and arrange them in the lane of the X-ray inspection apparatus before passing through the gate of the metal detector. If you have a notebook PC in your bag, you need to put it in a separate box so that you can see the equipment, but the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) not only has a notebook PC, but " Electronic equipment "is also obliged to submit it separately. For example, if you have "smartphone" and "e-book reader" in addition to "notebook PC", "portable game machine like Nintendo Switch", you will arrange 4 boxes only with electronic equipment.

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TSA has already piloted this policy at 10 airports in the US and plans to expand to the airport in the US within a few months. After starting operation, we will deploy TSA's staff in front of the lane of the X-direction inspection equipment and explain the electronic equipment that needs to be orally extracted to passengers.

Adoption of these new policies is part of countermeasures against terrorism in the United States, and in the United States it has just banned bringing notebook PCs and tablets into the airplane with direct flights from eight countries in the Middle East. There is also one aspect that it is not fixed about carrying "Fabret" located between the smartphone and the tablet, and it is expected that further confusion will arise for American travelers.

Whether the ban on take-in of laptop PCs as a countermeasure against terrorism extends from Islamic area to Europe - GIGAZINE


In addition, security inspection becomes easy "TSA pre-check"Registrant said that it is not necessary to take out" electronic equipment of a size larger than the mobile phone "from the bag.