Post #321,216
2/9/10 2:34:53 PM
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why I am not surprised, body scan abuse
cant take the human out of the scanning staff
http://www.prisonpla...d-circulated.html
Within days of the devices being introduced at Heathrow, staff have abused their professionalism and printed out naked scans of a famous actor for their own titillation.
We were promised all along that the body scanners Âincreased privacy because they were only accessible to a single staff member who had no personal contact with the passenger taking the scan, in addition to the assurance that the images could not be saved and were instantly deleted. It in fact turns out that airport staff have been saving, printing and circulating naked body scans in complete violation of these supposed guarantees. If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #321,228
2/9/10 4:10:15 PM
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I'm shocked, shocked I tell you
to learn that pr0nning is going on in this place.
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Post #321,231
2/9/10 5:59:04 PM
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A real "who guards the guards" moment.
Would people be a lot more willing to be scanned if every scanning point had, up on the wall, scans of the airlines' CEOs, chiefs of airport security and even the "security personnel" running the machine?
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #321,232
2/9/10 6:15:10 PM
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How about ...
Make the scanner a two-way window. So while they're standing there looking at you, you're standing there looking at them. No privacy concerns there, right? And they shouldn't be worried about the exposure, as we've been assured it's minimal.
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Drew
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Post #321,244
2/9/10 9:25:21 PM
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I like.
But I still think it needs to include large, unedited scans of those whose decisions are foisting it upon us.
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #321,246
2/9/10 9:35:00 PM
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It works on several levels
First, they'll have a hell of a time getting employees to do it. Then, they'll have the employees' union lawyers making the case that it's an invasion of privacy. (And unions are much better funded than privacy advocate groups.)
Finally, when some of them are forced to do it anyway, you can bet some of them will figure out how to screen themselves from the device. And it will only be a matter of time before that knowledge gets out and everyone starts doing it.
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Drew
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Post #321,251
2/9/10 11:35:43 PM
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Transparency
Have the booth visible. Screen faces the back, so nobody outside the booth can see it. But everybody can see what's happening in the booth.
Or, better yet, do security for real instead of the bad kabuki.
Is there really anything going on other than a play for "well, sorry the terrorists blew up the plane, but it's all your fault because you weren't willing to fly nude with a probe up your butt while singing the Star Spangled Banner on the new pay-per-view American Porn Idol"?
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Post #321,252
2/9/10 11:39:49 PM
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C'mon
this is in the UK...they're singing God Save The Queen!
I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
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Post #321,272
2/10/10 11:47:02 AM
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I mean it man...
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Post #321,295
2/10/10 6:58:04 PM
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Apparently not so...
http://www.theregist...lywood_star_scan/
BAA has been forced to deny that its security staff are circulating printouts of perv-scanned celebrities after a Bollywood comedian's late night riffing was taken at face value.
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