Violation of privacy of passengers here to stay
Neelam Mathews July 19, 2011 If its happening in the U.S, expect others not to lag far behind. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently ruled body scanning machines do not constitute illegal search. While this is good news for body scanner manufacturers Rapiscan and L-3 and bad news for those who don't like having to choose between digital nudity and frisking, wonder what are thoughts of users in India? Do we really have any privacy issues left to debate? Incidentally, the U.S court also found that use of the machines was different enough than traditional machine screenings that the Transportation Security Administration should have sought public comment prior to implementing full body scanners. The TSA has argued that it didn't need to seek public comment on the scanners because it wasn't a legislative decision. "It is clear that by producing an image of the unclothed passenger, an Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) scanner –( now...