Should we assume that TSA has discovered a major
flaw in their pat-down procedure? Perhaps they are merely trying to
justify spending all that money on a technology that wasn't being
used? (Yeah, you challenge them. I'm walking.)
TSA Body
Scan? Just Say ‘No’, Leading Expert Says
Passengers required by the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) to submit to a body scan can legally refuse,
according to Marc Rotenberg, President of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center (EPIC).
… On Friday, without notice, the
Transportation Security Authority (TSA) implemented new procedures
for airport security screening. TSA had been, until Friday, using a
screening procedure that consisted of either an AIT body scan or a
pat-down scan, at the passenger’s option. The legality
(that is, constitutionality) of the security procedure encompassing a
passenger’s option to choose an AIT scan or a pat-down scan was
affirmed by the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2012, in the EPIC v DHS
case mentioned above.
… What is different in the new security
procedures is that TSA made the body scans mandatory for some people
… Jennifer Ellison and Marc Pilcher, attorneys
in the TSA Office of Chief Counsel writing in “Advanced Imaging
Technology (AIT) Deployment: Legal Challenges and Responses”
emphasized the legal importance of pat-downs being a screening
option.
Amusing.
A Glossary
of WWI Soldier Slang
The Saturday sillies.
Hack
Education Weekly News
… “Clinton:
‘I Wouldn’t Keep Any School Open That Wasn’t Doing A Better
Than Average Job.’” No schools in Lake Wobegon will be
required to close.
… Class Central has released its report
on 2015 MOOC enrollment: “The MOOC space essentially doubled this
year. More people signed up for MOOCs in 2015 than they did in the
first three years of the modern MOOC space’s existence.”
… Via
Boing Boing: “In Texas, a 12 year old Sikh boy was arrested for
‘terrorism’ over a solar charger.”
… “Student Loan Subsidies Cause Almost All
of the Increase in Tuition,” according
to the Foundation for Economic Education.
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