Air Travelers Complaints Contradict TSA Claims Regarding Whole Body Scanners
The Electronic Privacy information Center has obtained documents, from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under a Freedom of Information Act request, disclosing that passengers were not informed prior to being subjected to whole body scanning. The TSA has claimed that air travelers when given a choice prefer the experience of the digital strip search of whole body scanning machines to medal detectors and the pat down option. The TSA claimed that where the machines were in use passengers were fully informed about the technology before undergoing screening. There are ongoing challenges from consumer rights, privacy, and civil liberties organizations over the use of the controversial devices on persons because of health, privacy, and civil liberties questions yet to be answered by an independent evaluation of the technology.
Travelers file complaints over TSA body scanners, Jaikumar Vijayan, Business Week, March 8, 2010
