a question … or two or three or more
permalink | categories: crime, government, law enforcement, news, transportation, travelby Judy Hill @ 2:35 pm
Please tell me why the person used to demonstrate the new body scanning machines at Tampa International Airport - as seen on the Metro front in Friday’s St. Petersburg Times -
Why not an old fat guy?
is a buff young woman and not a fat old man?
Whomever she is - let’s call her Big Boobs Girl - certainly does not represent most of the people I see at TIA or at the mall or at the grocery store or in the mirror or at just about anyplace in America. Aren’t we having an epidemic of obesity?
But the larger question - not boobwise, but otherwise - is regarding the technology. Is it an invasion of privacy?
Does it smack of Big Brother?
And who really believes that those images can’t be saved, reproduced, e-mailed around the world?
Tags: airport, big brother, invasion, National, privacy, tech, TIA
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August 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
1. In hopes of stimulating a hiring wave at TSA. “You too can watch naked girls all day long, and get paid for it!”
2. An invasion only occurs when something unwanted invades, but we have welcomed the government into our lives quite willingly.
3. By the way, citizen, we are still at DHS Threat Level Orange, and we will always be at war with Eastasia.
4. Of course they can be saved. It’s necessary for evidence. I can’t wait to see Pamela Anderson’s “shroud of Turin” nude shot.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
This is more than a smack of Big Brother. This invasion of privacy is literally horrible because it is soooo creepy.
All the little bits of privacy we’ve given up have brought us to this: whenever we buy an airplane ticket, we’re agreeing to let some airport security guys look at naked pictures of us — and naked pictures of our daughters.
This machine can see through the woman’s clothing, but not her leather boots. Nor her leather panties. I’m guessing they must be leather, or else the machine would see through them like it sees through the rest of the fabric she’s wearing, right? But if we don’t wear our leather undies to the airport, the images would be that much more invasive.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I was busy that day.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:52 am
This is a great fundraising idea for TSA. They could offer subscriptions for “Hottie of the Week” and “Hunk of the Week”. We are headed into tight budget times and must be creative. Privacy?? That concept was based on that quaint, outdated, and now-shredded U.S. Constitution. But we are SAFE!!?
August 9th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Are those nipples I see? How will the FCC allow this to happen? Didn’t we learn anything from nipple-gate? Pfft, the indecency.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Because staring at potentially dangerous cargo crates at the Port of Tampa is way boring, dude.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. Who really cares about the naked bodies of millions of people, the vast majority of whom you aren’t going to know or be interested in. If this scanning service makes trips through the airport faster and air travel safer, I’m all for it. You already basically give up your civil liberties when you agree to fly anyway…. my wife and many others have been searched quite closely before while traveling.