US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding

OverTheGeicoE writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the US House of Representatives is trying to cut funding for new airport body scanners from next year's budget. This would prevent the TSA from installing 275 new scanners in airports in FY 2012, at a cost of $76 million."

Comments

Re:Hrm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually we can't do behavioral profiling because idiots like you don't understand that it's not the same thing as racial profiling.

Racial profiling: "That guy is black but he's driving an expensive car. He probably stole the car."

Behavioral profiling: "That guy is driving conspicuously slow and it's 2:00am on a Saturday night, there's a good chance he's drunk."

Re:Prevent the TSA?

[houghi]

The beginning? This is not even the end. The moment Bin Laden was killed, it was told that retaliations were to be expected and things will get worse.

Remember: this is not about fighting some enemy, this is about controlling you. If this "enemy" is gone, another will be invented.

Once communism was the worst that could happen. The war on that was won and did it bring peace? Not, just the next "enemy".