Full-body scanners raising privacy issues

UPI ^ | January 11, 2009

[myknowledge]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Machines to screen airline passengers can store and transmit images, making them open to possible abuse, a U.S. group critical of full-body scanning says.

The federal Transportation Security Administration currently has about 40 body-scanning machines in operation at 19 U.S airports and wants to add 150 more this year and 300 in 2011, CNN reports. TSA says the scanners are not networked and that each machine works independently without the ability to store or send graphic images of human anatomy.

[greenhornet68]

Give me the option of flying Air-Infidel. Use the Full-body scanners on other more sensitive airlines.

http://warroom.com/images/air-infidel.jpg

[CharlesWayneCT]

IN my opinion, they should simply have a line for people who do not want to go through the body scanners.

In that line, the screeners can use whatever other methods are necessary, based on the person, to ensure there is no danger. Full-body pat-down, strip search, 20-minute interview, whatever it takes.

I think we should respect the privacy of people who just don’t want to use the fast and easy method.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I think you’d have to be pretty perverted to be sexually aroused by that picture.

And pretty desparate, given the universal availability of images and videos on the internet for the guy at TSA looking to download something to their phone to get off.

[DTogo]

We the People must pose "naked" to enter the airport,

Barrack Hussein Obama does NOT have to produce an original birth certificate to enter the Oval Office.

[MrB]

Too bad we don’t have a truly free market and true freedom of association - air infidel would be a great success!

[opentalk]

I wonder what health issues, are associated with the machines.

[Sarajevo]

I think you’d have to be pretty perverted to be sexually aroused by that picture.

Yep, but if the picture can be downloaded and posted on FR, who knows what else can be done.

[Sarajevo]

It's almost like signing up for a root canal to go on a flight these days.

And about as comfortable.

[GladesGuru]

“Seriously, the pervs at TSA will be active, there can be no doubt.”

That is possibly the only work TSAPersons will be busily and diligently doing.

[dan1123]

That picture is a fake. It is just a photoshopped nude from http://www.photoalto.com/index/fa/c.image/pid/PAA246000018 (NSFW)

[Jeff Gordon]

That picture is a fake. Thank you for that information.

[myknowledge]

I'm like unmasking the secret capabilities of the body scanner machines that the corporate-controlled MSM flagrantly refuses to reveal.

I'm only 19 years old have never worked with any one of these privacy invaders in my entire life. Just check out my FR page.

[CodeToad]

One the govenrment has all the brain dead Americans used to these devices they can ban guns and have the means to take them. We will be defenseless against their tyranny.

[CodeToad]

“whatever it takes.”

Takes for what, exactly? Why are you on a web site called “Free Republic” when you obviously are demanding a powerful, intrusive, and controlling government?

Maybe you’d prefer each night everyone stand at attention outside their home while government agents search and inspect your house for “contraband”? Perhaps Nazi style Hitler Youth to tattletale on you for saying something naughty against the government so you can be executed? Maybe you’d prefer we all just walk around nude and only in areas and pathways that are government approved just so you can “feel safe”?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Takes for what, exactly?

I thought I made that clear in my comments:

In that line, the screeners can use whatever other methods are necessary, based on the person, to

ensure there is no danger. Full-body pat-down, strip search, 20-minute interview, whatever it takes.

My point was simple. The powers that be have decided that keeping planes from blowing up is more important than convenience. I don't like it, but I know that isn't going to change.

So rather than force everybody to use a specific procedure that some don't like, my suggestion is to let people decide how they will be searched, with the realization that some methods take a lot longer.

I think most people would chose the scanner because it's quick.

In order to go to the top of the CN tower in ontario, you have to go into this machine that blows air all around you, and samples it for explosives. "Whatever it takes".