Originally Posted by
star_world
Seriously? This is what you're all getting fired up about?
There are much bigger fish to fry out there. It's a blurry picture of something vaguely human looking. It's not stored in non-volatile memory on the device. It's gone 5 seconds later and the next person goes through. End of story. The people operating this machine are going to be looking at image after image, for hours every day. Do you really think that each new image is going to bring waves of excitement to them? Get real.
If you think being subject to an unreasonable search with no suspicion of wrongdoing and having privacy violated isn't a big fish ... wow.
All for just wanting to board an airplane? Wow. Just wow.
It isn't about the screener getting excited.
It's about an administrative search that's supposed to be limited to the least intrusive means possible and that's turned into something that blows the 4th amendment out of the water. I'd really like to hear how this is a reasonable search based on the REAL threat of terrorism (not the DHS "sky's falling" version).