Airport Privacy

We should have nothing to hide, why do we care? I am just glad that the police are out there doing their job. However, our founding fathers died so that when the police knocked on your door, you could simply refuse to let them enter your home. This is a sacred American right. You have that right and privacy is a big part of it.

Now they are trying to enhance the capabilities of the scanners in airports. How far are we going to go on this? You see some real detail on these scanners. How do you feel when you go to the airport and people have the ability to look at ANYTHING. Some people use the airport as much as some use the UTA bus.

How far do we go to insure our security at the airport? How much of a right to privacy can you expect?

Congressman Jason Chaffetz joined the program from Capitol Hill. There comes a point where we over step privacy barriers and this is way, way over the boundary. The TSA is doing a terrible job to let people know of the details. The scanners are able to detect a bead of sweat on someone’s back, imagine what else they can see. If you refuse to go through the machine then you cannot get to your flight. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Doug has a high respect for the TSA and understands that they will most likely not abuse this. But the fact that these images are available is scary. These definitely aren’t something you want your kids looking at, so why would you want anyone else to have access to them. If people actually say what was required for them to get on an airplane, they would be absolutely appalled.

Caller Josh is an aviation student at UVU and researched this topic closely recently. What he found was that the machine is able to focus on specific aspects or regions of the body. Doug acknowledged this but what happens when people get clever and start hiding things in different places.

Caller Alice agreed that the images are very, very specific. She has been flying since she was 6 months old and if they implement this technology she will not fly again.