I'm a little confused. If a police agency releases a video of a robbery, there is "public interest" in that being seen by the general public. Does it, technically, violate the privacy of the accused? Yes, though not necessarily from a legal standpoint, and in such a case that isn't the primary concern.

Quoting from the Privacy Act itself: "No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication...". Again, quoting, a record classifies as "any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph".

So, open and shut, yes? Not really. Under "General Exemptions," the following is stated: "[Head of an agency may] exempt any system of records within the agency from any part of this section...if the system of records is...maintained by an agency or component thereof which performs as its principal function any activity pertaining to the enforcement of criminal laws, including police efforts to prevent, control, or reduce crime or to apprehend criminals, and the activities of prosecutors, courts, correctional, probation, pardon, or parole authorities".

So technically, TSA can release it claiming that by doing so they are helping to "prevent or reduce crime," namely being violation of travel rules. This is also the same section of the Privacy Act that allows police to show the security camera footage of the local man robbing a 7-Eleven on the evening news.

By that logic, there should be no problem with a passenger operating a video camera while transiting "security". @:-) After all, the passengers should be able to defend themselves when being wrongfully accused too, by this morally bankrupt agency.

I think it would make a great public interest video. Cut to the person sitting at the exit. Show $40,000 in cash being burned. Cut to the barker at the checkpoint. Show the Vogon who tosses Ford and Arthur into the airlock. Show another $40,000 in cash being burned. Cut to the three "managers" at the podium. Show $200,00 in cash being burned.

There's the difference...a passenger isn't a government agency. Unless we want to turn this into a Family Guy episode.

Very, VERY disappointed with the video and with some responses to it. The dangerous parent/toddler junta should have been forced to clean the floor with their TONGUES in exactly the same way TSOs clean the shoes of their superiors.

Harrumph!

An' I don' need no stinkin' air travel.

I suspect that Emmerson's mouth was already filthy.

Might want to try loading DivX or Xvid codecs on your computer to see if that works. AVI's are often encoded in those. May want to try Adobe Premier to view it as well.

So this is STILL the only bust-worthy myth that guilty-until-proven-innocent TSA has come up with? No old people or puppies to pick on?