Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports

Lapzilla brings word that airports around the US are beginning to use a new type of body-scanning machine which records pictures of travelers underneath their clothing. The process takes roughly 30 seconds, and the person viewing the pictures is located in a separate room. We've discussed similar scanners in the past. From USAToday: "[Barry Steinhardt, head of the ACLU technology project] said passengers would be alarmed if they saw the image of their body. 'It all seems very clinical and non-threatening -- you go through this portal and don't have any idea what's at the other end,' he said. Passengers scanned in Baltimore said they did not know what the scanner did and were not told why they were directed into the booth. Magazine-sized signs are posted around the checkpoint explaining the scanners, but passengers said they did not notice them."

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Ron Paul wouldn't allow this sort of thing

[SonicSpike]

People bitch and moan about airport security yet they keep voting for people who give them bigger and more intrusive government.

US Congressman and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) voted against the DHS / TSA nonsense. Why did he receive as few votes as he did?

Re:Constitutional law

[Martin Blank]

If you want to voice an opinion that I should have used different phrasing, please do so. If you're going to quote me, then quote my words faithfully. "Fixing" it, even in jest, is altering the quote of my words. The meme isn't funny or clever, and never has been.