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[ PRIVACY Forum ] TSA: Dear America, I Saw You Naked
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TSA: Dear America, I Saw You Naked
http://j.mp/1api4f9 (Politico)
"Most of my co-workers found humor in the I.O. room on a cruder level.
Just as the long-suffering American public waiting on those security
lines suspected, jokes about the passengers ran rampant among my TSA
colleagues: Many of the images we gawked at were of overweight people,
their every fold and dimple on full awful display. Piercings of every
kind were visible. Women who'd had mastectomies were easy to
discern-their chests showed up on our screens as dull, pixelated
regions. Hernias appeared as bulging, blistery growths in the crotch
area. Passengers were often caught off-guard by the X-Ray scan and so
materialized on-screen in ridiculous, blurred poses-mouths agape, la
Edvard Munch. One of us in the I.O. room would occasionally identify a
passenger as female, only to have the officers out on the checkpoint
floor radio back that it was actually a man. All the old, crass
stereotypes about race and genitalia size thrived on our secure
government radio channels."
- - -
It's important to remember that the prime mover behind the adoption of this
technology at US airports was Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security
under President G.W. Bush. Chertoff left government and cashed in promoting
this failed (and now replaced) tech. Be sure to read all four pages of this
piece.
--Lauren--
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