Daily Grope-Up: The Groping Will Continue Until You Drive Edition
- “‘Naked’ scanners at U.S. airports may be dangerous: scientists” (National Post) The head of the X-ray lab at Johns Hopkins says “statistically, someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays.”
- “DHS chief tells pilot, tourism reps scans and patdowns will continue ” (Infowars.com) includes link to a CNN story “Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs” which contains an estimated loss of 9.6 billion dollars in business because of the previous measures being too annoying.
- Enough people are delivering resistance that TSA is threatening them with civil fines.
- Meanwhile, a three year old girl sobs “Stop touching me!” [Update: Brad points out that this is from January 2009. Good catch, but I can’t see TSA regulations that demand child pornography or sexual assault reducing such incidents.]
- @snrk says “That it’s taken the TSA touching your junk to wake you up betrays a lack of foresight for where this was inevitably going to go, America.”
- “Airport Security is Killing Us!” (IndustryWeek) Literally. It’s killing us through cancer, it’s killing us through road deaths. We need a comprehensive policy that’s in line with dignity & the Constitution.
FYI, that three-year-old girl story is dated January 2009.
There’s a discussion of the risk from TSA, and possible quantification of that risk, at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/1149028-tsa-more-likely-kill-you-than-terrorist.html
It’d be good to do more work on this issue. Apparently the TSA’s Rapidscan machines do put us at a greater risk of death than the terrorists….