Airport security bares all, or does it?

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Source: CNN

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers, CNN has learned.

The national campaign, which will gather signatures from organizations and relevant professionals, is set to launch this week with the hope that it will go "viral," said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which plans to lead the charge.

"People need to know what's happening, with no sugar-coating and no spinning," said Coney, who is also coordinator of the Privacy Coalition, a conglomerate of 42 member organizations. She expects other groups to sign on in the push for the technology's suspension until privacy safeguards are in place.

Right now, without regulations on what the Transportation Security Administration does with this technology, she said, "We don't have the policy to hold them to what they say. They're writing their own rule book at this point."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/18/airport.security.body.scans/index.html

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It's good they're making a stand before we agree to too much.

[MADem]

1. What would they do to someone wearing lead-lined skivvies, I wonder?

No, you CAN'T see my fiddly bits, thanks anyway, ya perv!

[kimmylavin]

3. Fiddly bits. Love it!

These machines, though?
Hate 'em.
They're enough to make me not want to fly again.

[Robb]

2. The software blurs out the face

...which means I can put a knife in my teeth and board the plane? Arrrrrr...

[tomm2thumbs]

4. stick a foil-covered dildo in your pants and go through - listen for gasps

it'll be swell

[izquierdista]

5. Airport protests

It would be great if everyone flying this summer wore only a speedo or a bikini. But not just the good looking, in-shape people. The overweight, obese, extra flabby, winkled and extra hairy should also let TSA get a good long look at them. I guarantee that the stewardesses would go out on strike after having to check under folds of fat to see if seat belts are buckled. Call the damn government on their stupid airport security and turn the other cheek -- on them.

Would you like a window or aisle seat?

[gkhouston]

6. And in use, probably as functional as checking ID. My husband flew with my passport once.

We look nothing alike and have different last names. He realized his mistake after handing the passport to a TSA person and was about to explain and dig out his driver's license when the security droid waved him through. They expect us to give up our privacy when they're not even doing a good job with the systems already widely in use. :banghead:

[question everything]

7. It is time that we stop swallow everything that is presented to us

in the name of "national security."

No doubt, the real terrorists will be able to bypass this procedure, too.