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CNN: More on virtual strip search by airport screening

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

CNN posted an article yesterday afternoon about an effort to stop body scans at airports being virtual strip searches. Airport security bares all, or does it?: Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers, CNN has learned. The national campaign, which will gather signatures from organizations and relevant professionals, is set to launch this week with the hope that it will go "viral," said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which plans to lead the charge. "People need to know what's happening, with no sugar-coating and no spinning," said Coney, who is also coordinator of the Privacy Coalition, a conglomerate of 42 member organizations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).