Group Demands Immediate Halt of Full-Body Airport Scanners
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/epic-airport/
If you have been to an up to date airport latley in the United States, you are probably familiar with devices called Full-Body scanners. There are currently 450 of these machines in our country as of now, deployed by The Transportation Security Administration. Marc Rotenburg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said this Tuesday: “The suspicionless search of all airport travelers in this most invasive way violates the reasonableness standard contained in the Fourth Amendment." He suspects that the government are using these scanners to take pictures of the naked human body.
I think that these scanners are necessary in United States airports today. My cousins passed away on September 11, and I believe if we would have had this kind of technology back then that the tragedy that happened to families, including mine, would not have happened. My opinion on Rotenburg's comment is that he has become overly paranoid about the government. I believe that the full-body scanners are used for security purposes only. If they are allowed to give full-body cavity searches, what is so wrong about letting them scan your body?
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