Privacy group says TSA device sees too much

A privacy advocacy group is expected this week to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of body-scanning machines capable of peeking underneath the clothing of airline passengers traveling through the nation's airports, including Los Angeles International Airport.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, based in Washington, D.C., has spent the past month gathering signatures on a petition aimed at ending the use of "whole body imaging" technology, which they deem a "virtual strip search."

"We don't think the government should be able to see what's under other people's clothes," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

"Some people say they prefer using this technology compared to being patted down," Rotenberg said. "But they don't understand that these are big digital cameras that take pictures of people being naked."

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Just sayin....

for one and all to go gaga over.

posted by some TSA employee who just couldn't resist?

Usually it's early on in the process. The practical value has much more to do with inducing submission in subjects and asserting the all-seeing eye of the Daddy-State, rather than screening for contraband.
The humiliation naked subjects feel before other naked subjects lessens some over time probably, but the humiliation and psychological abasement/regression before representatives of authority does not.

So while it seems the loss of bodily privacy has become old hat in our prison colony (insert pop culture reference to body cavity search joke here) the fascination of coerced nakedness as a method of domination only grows and grows. This year, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a 13 yr old girl, who was held for a strip search by a school over suspicion that she had extra-strength Advil on her person. The outcome of the case which has yet to be decided is less interesting as a gauge of where we are than the fact that the strip search took place at all, and also that evidently there is still some institutional power that insists on defending its "right" to strip search young citizens over charges that would be inconsequential, even if true.