»»Privacy Advocacy Group Sues Department of Homeland Security To Block Airport Body Scanners
A privacy advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., the Electronic Privacy Information Center, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to block the full body scanners at the airports.
The USA Today quotes Marc Rotenberg, president of EPIC says as saying: “the program is unlawful, invasive, and ineffective [...] the body scanners are highly invasive and are applied to all air travelers without any particular suspicion.”
However the program’s proponents argue that the TSA limits the number of officers who can see the images and separates the officers looking at images from the passengers being screened. The scanners also use software to blur the faces on the images. (source).
