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Pepsi
06-07-2009, 08:45 AM
This is a good step forward, thow they still can use them.

Freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz scored his first legislative victory Thursday, nabbing more than 300 votes to limit the use of airport screening devices that peer through travelers' clothes.

Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who originally thought he would have to withdraw his bill for lack of support, drew votes from Democrats and Republicans to ban the primary use of "whole-body imaging" technology, which uses radio waves to check passengers for potential weapons.

Chaffetz said the pictures gleaned from those scans essentially show naked bodies and no one could guarantee the images wouldn't end up being saved or copied.

"I want to have as much safety and security on the airplanes" as everyone else, Chaffetz said. "But there comes a point when, in the name of safety and security, we overstep that line, and we have an invasion of privacy."


Salt Lake City International Airport is one of 19 airports nationwide testing the new technology, which involves taking a 360-degree picture of a traveler with radio waves. The images, with faces blurred, then are checked by a Transportation Security Administration official elsewhere -- which Chaffetz argued still goes too far.

"You don't need to look at my wife and 8-year-old daughter naked," he said, "to secure that airplane."

The American Civil Liberties Union backed Chaffetz's effort, arguing the images produced are humiliating and an assault

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12521448

Working Poor
06-07-2009, 10:48 AM
Way to go Mr. Freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz !!!!

dr. hfn
06-07-2009, 05:50 PM
Violation of the 4th Amendment!

Pepsi
06-08-2009, 05:32 PM
Do you think the Senate will pass it or tell every body they must get nude in order to get on the plane? hmmm, nude air travle...