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Federal Court Rules That TSA ‘Naked Scans’ Are Constitutional
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1469360:MV8xNTYyNzYwXzI1ODIyNDMwXzIzQTcwNEY0] [quote:BRIEF] [quote:Phase-Sphere] [quote:BRIEF] Boycott the airlines...don't fly [/quote] 100% !!!!! :thumbs: [/quote] A good business to start would be to charter planes and get people together to fill them up and split the cost of the charter...no TSA checkpoint for private flights :) [/quote] Lol instead of a carpool its a planepool. Awesome idea. [/quote]
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Last weekend, a Tennessee woman was arrested at the Nashville airport for disorderly conduct after she refused TSA security measures for her children. The woman didn’t want her two children to have to go through a whole-body-imaging scanner. When a Transportation Security Administration officer told her the machines were safe, she said, “I still don’t want someone to see our bodies naked.”
She won’t be pleased with a ruling then out of the D.C. Circuit today. This morning, the federal court ruled that the “naked scans” of air travelers do not violate Americans’ constitutional rights. Privacy rights group EPIC had sued the Department of Homeland Security, alleging violations of innocent passengers’ Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches. The court says that argument doesn’t fly.
In the opinion [pdf] from the D.C. Circuit Court (the Volokh Conspiracy), Judge Douglas Ginsburg writes that the advance imaging technology is not unreasonable given the security concerns on airplanes, and that people have the option to opt out for a pleasurable patdown. The court notes that some “have complained that the resulting patdown was unnecessarily aggressive,” but the judges don’t seem overly concerned about that. Ginsburg writes:
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