Border guard used passport details to hit on women (Canada)
May 27, 2010, 12:11 am
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Border guard used passport details to hit on women (Canada)
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"A BC border guard e-mailed himself the passport details of attractive women who came through his inspection line so he could hit on them later on Facebook, according to an internal government investigation..."
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/reg...#ixzz0p6iK2rZ7
"A BC border guard e-mailed himself the passport details of attractive women who came through his inspection line so he could hit on them later on Facebook, according to an internal government investigation..."
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/reg...#ixzz0p6iK2rZ7
May 27, 2010, 2:16 am
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It wouldn't be too difficult to develop a scenario where this could happen at strip search machines.
It wouldn't be too difficult to develop a scenario where this could happen at strip search machines.
May 27, 2010, 7:08 am
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That could never happen. The TSA says they are used only for good and not evil; and the TSA is an honorable agency
May 27, 2010, 8:58 am
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While I believe the strip search machines are a huge waste of $$$ and an invasion of privacy, that scenario is a bit of a stretch. You really don't need a strip search machine to determine if someone is attractive. The TDC would have a much easier chance of doing this since they get the ID - just jot down the name and city. The screeners would have to justify a secondary and then some to get a look at your ID. They could probably more easily just look at your baggage tags as they come out of the x-ray.
May 27, 2010, 9:38 am
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Searched but didn't find this gem:
"A BC border guard e-mailed himself the passport details of attractive women who came through his inspection line so he could hit on them later on Facebook, according to an internal government investigation..."
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/reg...#ixzz0p6iK2rZ7
"A BC border guard e-mailed himself the passport details of attractive women who came through his inspection line so he could hit on them later on Facebook, according to an internal government investigation..."
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/reg...#ixzz0p6iK2rZ7
"Genetic" checks is what some of us call this kind of approach, and it happens at ports of entry and consulates/embassies around the world and "off-site" too.
May 27, 2010, 9:40 am
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While of course it should not have happened, and the guard should have taken the first ignore as a hint and moved on to the next woman he had on file
Furthermore, “on numerous occasions [he had] captured images and names of female travellers he had conducted primary processing on” and then sent the information to his personal e-mail account.
the story also points out this is not unique to border crossing guards, that somebody from the tax office had done the same. Where ever there are attractive women (or attractive to them) there will be creepy people trying to hook up with them.
A few years ago a TSA dink was having not clean thoughts about an attractive woman we were traveling with, too bad he was stupid enough to say them outloud without realizing it.
Funny, we never saw him at JFK again after that (his supervisor was standing next to him at the time, there was no question he was so out of line)
Furthermore, “on numerous occasions [he had] captured images and names of female travellers he had conducted primary processing on” and then sent the information to his personal e-mail account.
the story also points out this is not unique to border crossing guards, that somebody from the tax office had done the same. Where ever there are attractive women (or attractive to them) there will be creepy people trying to hook up with them.
A few years ago a TSA dink was having not clean thoughts about an attractive woman we were traveling with, too bad he was stupid enough to say them outloud without realizing it.
Funny, we never saw him at JFK again after that (his supervisor was standing next to him at the time, there was no question he was so out of line)
May 27, 2010, 9:44 am
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Honor -- where it exists even in small part -- often goes out the door as soon as someone is desperate enough to take desperate measures to try to land some "action" from someone "hot"/"good enough"/"easy enough" is deemed "possible"/"safe"/"worth it" to the person exploiting their work position to try to land "action".
Often it's "action" in exchange for "favors" to be provided by persons working immigration control-related functions at a port of entry or diplomatic post.
Often it's "action" in exchange for "favors" to be provided by persons working immigration control-related functions at a port of entry or diplomatic post.
May 27, 2010, 9:51 am
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yup and abuse of authority at its very best 
give it time, give it time (and i can't wait for it to happen just to see the tsa spin it)
give it time, give it time (and i can't wait for it to happen just to see the tsa spin it)
May 27, 2010, 1:28 pm
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May 27, 2010, 2:01 pm
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And this is a prime example of why the strip-search machines are a bad idea, and why one should never present ID with an address on it to a TSA screener.