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"National Opt-Out Day is coming, and to celebrate, checkin service Loopt is planning to reward those travelers who opt out of body scans in favor of full-body pat-downs. The prize? An \"iPod touches.\" (Nice one, Loopt.)\nAccording to the Loopt blog, the checkin service has 10 iPod touches up for the taking, which will be awarded on November 24 \u2014 a.k.a. The Day Before Thanksgiving, a.k.a. A Super Busy Travel Day, a.k.a. National Opt-Out Day. \nAll one has to do to snag a touch is check in at an airport via Loopt (on any handset), write a bit about being patted down, and push your checkin to Twitter with the hashtag #touchedbyTSA.\nIf you've not had access to the web for the past few weeks, National Opt-Out Day is a protest planned by those who are against the TSA's new security measures, which include full-body scanners (which show passengers fully naked) and invasive pat-downs administered to those who opt out of the scans. \nCalifornia's John Tyner became the de facto face of this movement after detailing an invasive patdown on his personal blog \u2014 Tyner told a TSA agent, \"You touch my junk and I'm going to have you arrested.\" (See video below.) The move has landed him in some hot water of late.\nNow a group has organized National Opt-Out day, asking travelers to refuse scans and submit to pat-downs instead. Translation: Thanksgiving travel just got loads more annoying.\nWhat do you think of Loopt's promotion? Is it a fun campaign, or will it just add to the mayhem?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Oleg Volk"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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