Posted on 03/26/2010 5:56:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sec. Napolitano says airport full-body scanners 'do not see everything' By Sean J. Miller - 03/26/10 06:14 AM ET
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Privacy concerns shouldn’t hinder the rapid deployment of controversial full-body scanners at American airports, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday.
“Some have expressed concerns about these [advanced imaging technology] machines – that they infringe upon privacy,” Napolitano told students and faculty at Arizona State University. “But suffice it to say, many of those worries have been spurred by the continued publication of photos that were taken using older versions of the technology, not the technology that’s actually being deployed today.”
Critics of the machines have said they amount to a technological strip-search.
Napolitano insisted that her department does take privacy concerns “into account.” The Transportation Security Administration officer reading the image is now separated from the person being scanned, Napolitano said. “And I can confirm, no, the [scanning] machines do not see everything.”
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Ugh. In her case that should be a relief.
Thanks Janet, for again letting our enemies know where the soft spots are.
Not that I would want to see the image, but I think that the Secretary should alleviate our fears by being a public guinea pig and displaying exactly how much of our privacy is invaded, If she is willing to have her image publicly displayed with her name attached, only then will I believe her.
Her corncob remained hidden?
I sure hope she doesn’t step in front of one of these scanners to prove it.
Liberty and security are not “opposing values,” she said. “You can not live freely if you live in fear."
What kind of Orwellian doublethink is this broad saying here?
Too bad we don’t have a mandatory intelligence and motive brain scan for her and the rest of the dumb asses in DC.
If these new scanners provide a greater level of security and are monitored outside of the line of people going through security checks, then I say bring it on. Subject everybody including witless wonders like Napolitano to the same security procedures whenever they fly. I hope it actually sees everything as that would make me feel even safer and all flying would be safer.
Nothing to hide, like this administration.
Seems to me that the “area of privacy” just happened to coincide with where the underwear bomber was wearing his bomb....
Specifically, they don’t see “intent.” We need to adopt the Israeli model.
My sister had to go through one, last time she took a plane trip. We decided the reason they have people viewing the scans from another room is to muffle the laughter. /sarcasm
“I sure hope she doesn’t step in front of one of these scanners to prove it.”
While it may be nauseating to contemplate, the truth is that her assertions would carry far more weight were she to do just that. If they really don’t show anything that should concern everyday citizens, she should have no objections to volunteering to prove this in black and white, so to speak. Any inhibition on her part to provide such proof merely contradicts her claim: actions speak louder than words, etc.
Hey Nap, “YOU LIE”
What war is she speaking of? She and her boss have both said there is not war on terror going on.
It takes two trips.
So what kind of marker can one use to write on your body so that it is reflected back to the security screener? One could write “HI” or draw a smiley face or ....
Of course it could not be an indelible marker.
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