New Airport Screening System Reals All
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is under fire for requiring all passengers to under go a digital strip search prior to boarding domestic flights. A policy reversal by the TSA now means that a "virtual strip search" is mandatory, instead of voluntary as originally announced. EPIC and others say that there are inadequate safeguards to prevent the misuse of the images. They are asking Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to suspend the program and to allow for public comment. The agency's ability to change its data collection, use, and sharing policy on the use of the technology without notice or input from outside of the agency is the fundamental threat to privacy protection.
New Airport Screening Bares All, CBS Evening News, May 23, 2009
