Mandatory Nude-o-Scope Bill in Senate
Jul 13, 2010, 4:22 pm
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Mandatory Nude-o-Scope Bill in Senate
Senators Klobuchar (D-MN) and Bennett (R-UT) have introduced a bill that would mandate the deployment of full body scanners in US airports. The bill would make Full Body Scanners the primary screening technique. The bill would provide for an alternative screening method for passengers with "privacy concerns." The bill contains particularly weak privacy provision that ignore many of the problems with the devices already uncovered...
http://epic.org/2010/07/full-body-sc...l-introdu.html
PDF of the bill:
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/Safer_Air_Final.pdf
Jul 13, 2010, 5:25 pm
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‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:
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‘‘(D) PRIMARY SCREENING.—The term ‘primary screening’ means the initial examination of any passenger at an airport checkpoint, including using available screening technologies to detect weapons, explosives, narcotics, or other indications of unlawful action, in order to determine whether to clear the passenger to board an aircraft or to further examine the passenger.’’
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‘‘(D) PRIMARY SCREENING.—The term ‘primary screening’ means the initial examination of any passenger at an airport checkpoint, including using available screening technologies to detect weapons, explosives, narcotics, or other indications of unlawful action, in order to determine whether to clear the passenger to board an aircraft or to further examine the passenger.’’
Jul 13, 2010, 5:29 pm
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Here are the Senate Homeland "Security" members. I urge you to contact your Senator if (s)he serves on this committee and urge them to kill this disgusting bill.
Joseph I. Lieberman, Chairman (CT) Susan M. Collins, Ranking Member (ME)
Carl Levin (MI) Tom Coburn (OK)
Daniel K. Akaka (HI) Scott Brown (MA)
Thomas R. Carper (DE) John McCain (AZ)
Mark L. Pryor (AR) George V. Voinovich (OH)
Mary L. Landrieu (LA) John Ensign (NV)
Claire McCaskill (MO) Lindsey Graham (SC)
Jon Tester (MT)
Roland Burris (IL)
Edward E. Kaufman (DE)
Joseph I. Lieberman, Chairman (CT) Susan M. Collins, Ranking Member (ME)
Carl Levin (MI) Tom Coburn (OK)
Daniel K. Akaka (HI) Scott Brown (MA)
Thomas R. Carper (DE) John McCain (AZ)
Mark L. Pryor (AR) George V. Voinovich (OH)
Mary L. Landrieu (LA) John Ensign (NV)
Claire McCaskill (MO) Lindsey Graham (SC)
Jon Tester (MT)
Roland Burris (IL)
Edward E. Kaufman (DE)
Jul 13, 2010, 5:36 pm
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Just have us strip while we are in line. What's the big deal? Save a ton of money on nude-o-scopes.
It will just take a while for everyone to "voluntarily comply" with this arrangement.
It will just take a while for everyone to "voluntarily comply" with this arrangement.
Jul 13, 2010, 5:39 pm
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‘‘(D) PRIMARY SCREENING.—The term ‘primary screening’ means the initial examination of any passenger at an airport checkpoint, including using available screening technologies to detect weapons, explosives, narcotics, or other indications of unlawful action, in order to determine whether to clear the passenger to board an aircraft or to further examine the passenger.’’
Jul 13, 2010, 5:42 pm
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There was never a decision directly on point-- it goes against Supreme Court dicta and also against lower court decisions not to mention common-sense 4th Amendment analysis and application.
Jul 13, 2010, 5:48 pm
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"Courts characterize the routine administrative search conducted at a security checkpoint as a warrantless search, subject to the reasonableness requirements of the Fourth Amendment. Such a warrantless search, also known as an administrative search, is valid under the Fourth Amendment if it is "no more intrusive or intensive than necessary, in light of current technology, to detect weapons or explosives, " confined in good faith to that purpose," and passengers may avoid the search by electing not to fly. [See United States v. Davis, 482 F.2d 893, 908 (9th Cir. 1973)]."
(Italics mine)
Copied from http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/optout/spp_faqs.shtm
How can you argue with that?^
(Italics mine)
Copied from http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/optout/spp_faqs.shtm
How can you argue with that?^
Jul 13, 2010, 6:08 pm
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I am not much of a fan of the TSA. And I am vehemently opposed to strip search scanners. But I would not worry too much about this bill because it states:
The bill would provide for an alternative screening method for passengers with "privacy concerns."
Regardless of when ATR starts being used there will still be ppl who refuse the scanners so i do not think they will ever become mandatory in the U.S. Right now I think there is about 25-30% of passengers that will not use AIT as a screening method, and I feel that as abuses and awareness increase that number will grow. If it is mandatory in any form I think airline revenue will be negatively impacted so I am not too worried. With that said I am still going to write to my politicians and state my opposition to these machines.
The bill would provide for an alternative screening method for passengers with "privacy concerns."
Regardless of when ATR starts being used there will still be ppl who refuse the scanners so i do not think they will ever become mandatory in the U.S. Right now I think there is about 25-30% of passengers that will not use AIT as a screening method, and I feel that as abuses and awareness increase that number will grow. If it is mandatory in any form I think airline revenue will be negatively impacted so I am not too worried. With that said I am still going to write to my politicians and state my opposition to these machines.
Jul 13, 2010, 6:16 pm
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I'd not trust their "alternative screening methods" one iota.