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"Want some torture with your peanuts?" Wearing a stun bracelet/GPS as a condition of flying?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The Department of Homeland Security is seriously considering use of stun and GPS bracelets on airline passengers. See Update: Dept. of Homeland Security weighs forcing passengers to wear stun gun bracelets on airplanes: Back in March, Gadling blogged about a firearm training system, Lamperd, which had patented a bracelet that worked like a stun gun when activated. At the time, Lamperd was lobbying the Transportation Security Administration to make it mandatory for all airline passengers to wear one, with the thinking that it was the best way to thwart a terrorist. Well, here's an update. The Department of Homeland Security, ever the shepherds watching over their flocks, appears to be seriously weighing making this bracelet mandatory and has sent a letter to Lamperd encouraging the company to draft a formal proposal for integrating its bracelet into flight security...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 09, 2008 (boomark / email).