Lucille
11-07-2010, 12:32 PM
EPIC Fights the Nude-a-Tron (http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3598)
Bravo for the Electronic Privacy Information Center!
EPIC has filed the opening brief in EPIC v. DHS, No, 10-1157, a case that challenges the unilateral decision of the TSA to make body scanners the primary screening technique in U.S. airports. Three frequent air travelers are joining EPIC in the lawsuit: security expert Bruce Schneier, human rights activist Chip Pitts, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations legal counsel Nadhira Al-Khalili. The Petitioners have brought claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Privacy Act, the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Fourth Amendment. The Petitioners are seeking the suspension of the body scanner program. In its brief, EPIC argues that the Department of Homeland Security "has initiated the most sweeping, the most invasive, and the most unaccountable suspicionless search of American travelers in history."
I confess, I never knew there was a "Video Voyeurism Prevention Act," but if ever there was a case of video voyeurism, the TSA must surely be guilty.
Wager time: what are the odds that the Tea Party will stand up for the Fourth Amendment, and against the TSA, in this case? (I'm betting "zero.")
Bravo for the Electronic Privacy Information Center!
EPIC has filed the opening brief in EPIC v. DHS, No, 10-1157, a case that challenges the unilateral decision of the TSA to make body scanners the primary screening technique in U.S. airports. Three frequent air travelers are joining EPIC in the lawsuit: security expert Bruce Schneier, human rights activist Chip Pitts, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations legal counsel Nadhira Al-Khalili. The Petitioners have brought claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Privacy Act, the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Fourth Amendment. The Petitioners are seeking the suspension of the body scanner program. In its brief, EPIC argues that the Department of Homeland Security "has initiated the most sweeping, the most invasive, and the most unaccountable suspicionless search of American travelers in history."
I confess, I never knew there was a "Video Voyeurism Prevention Act," but if ever there was a case of video voyeurism, the TSA must surely be guilty.
Wager time: what are the odds that the Tea Party will stand up for the Fourth Amendment, and against the TSA, in this case? (I'm betting "zero.")