TSA to test full-body screening machine at SLC – Salt Lake Tribune.
This is pretty interesting. The TSA is looking into the possibility of implementing this new full-body scan technology as an eventual replacement for magnetometers as the preferred security screening device in airports across the country.
The scan, which creates a pretty accurate 3D picture of your body under your clothes, is drawing the ire of everyone from the ACLU to people who complain that it violates modesty standards.
Personally, I’d rather have this scan than have to get patted down by some guy every time I go through security. It’s already an undignified cattle herding process now, maybe this could make things a little better?
How necessary is all this intrusion? I know that people will say, “Well, we haven’t had another 9/11.” But I think that misses a lot of points, including changes in how Americans look at and personally respond to threats on an aircraft.
Normally this whole security vs. privacy thing flares me right up (FISA, and telco immunity… which is back in court today, by the way — 2nd chance to get on the right side of this one, Mr. Obama!), but with this story I can’t get past how horrible it would be to have that job.
8 hours a day. Hazard pay conditions should apply.
The intrusion will not stop until we stop it. We have been conditioned to beleive this is the only way to be ‘secure’.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-02-17-detectors_N.htm
We see it everyday and barely notice it.
http://www.wpbf.com/news/18758773/detail.html
How far will it go?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i0f9zHVHrRQMg0ssuar_7KsJsy9wD95UTGSG1
I don’t know. But I think there as many tools being implemented to quell dissent.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/18/rnc_8
I am with Jason on this. Obama, what are you going to do?