With full see-through body scan x-rays being introduced at airports around the world - or otherwise be confronted with a full physical body search - travel has become even more unpleasant.
CommonDreams takes up the issue and the case of one man who wasn't to be cowed by the process.
"Much buzz over the video made by John Tyner, a 31-year-old software engineer who refused to undergo a full-body scan at the San Diego airport, then refused what he calls the requisite "groping by a government official" - as in, "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested" - all the while using his iPhone to record the encounter with increasingly hostile security agents. Now some legislators may ask Congress to reconsider the use of the scanners. All just in time for the busy travel season and next week's National Opt Out Day. Because, organizers say, "You should never have to explain to your children, 'Remember that no stranger can touch or see your private area, unless it's a government employee.'"
"I don't think that the government has any business seeing me naked as a condition of traveling about the country." - Tyner."
Meanwhile, this from Wired:
"A leading privacy group is urging a federal appeals court to suspend the government’s program of introducing full-body imaging machines at airports across the country."
CommonDreams takes up the issue and the case of one man who wasn't to be cowed by the process.
"Much buzz over the video made by John Tyner, a 31-year-old software engineer who refused to undergo a full-body scan at the San Diego airport, then refused what he calls the requisite "groping by a government official" - as in, "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested" - all the while using his iPhone to record the encounter with increasingly hostile security agents. Now some legislators may ask Congress to reconsider the use of the scanners. All just in time for the busy travel season and next week's National Opt Out Day. Because, organizers say, "You should never have to explain to your children, 'Remember that no stranger can touch or see your private area, unless it's a government employee.'"
"I don't think that the government has any business seeing me naked as a condition of traveling about the country." - Tyner."
Meanwhile, this from Wired:
"A leading privacy group is urging a federal appeals court to suspend the government’s program of introducing full-body imaging machines at airports across the country."
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