Remember when the TSA installed those machines at Phoenix airport that create images of people's naked bodies? Now they're trying to defend the machines, saying that "privacy is ensured through the anonymity of the image." So being seen naked doesn't violate your privacy at all, as long as the people who see you naked don't know who you are? The TSA is dead wrong. Now, I don't always agree with the ACLU, but this time I like what they had to say:
"First, this technology produces strikingly graphic images of passengers' bodies. Those images reveal not only our private body parts, but also intimate medical details like colostomy bags. That degree of examination amounts to a significant -- and for some people humiliating -- assault on the essential dignity of passengers that citizens in a free nation should not have to tolerate...They say that they are obscuring faces, but that is just a software fix that can be undone as easily as it is applied. And obscuring faces does not hide the fact that rest of the body will be vividly displayed."
Right on!
I must mention that these invasive scans are only done on passengers selected for secondary security checks. But still, everyone who can afford a plane ticket has a right to fly on a plane. Performing humiliating security procedures on innocent people is never justified.
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202401630
P.S. I added a new link to the sidebar. It's the site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a great organization dedicated to (among other things) fighting oppressive copyright laws. Check it out!
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