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**# One** · (This post was last modified: 08-03-2012 02:08 AM by # One.)

While being stripped naked by US airport technology might make some travelers uncomfortable, the TSA has further elevated concern by refusing to hold public hearings regarding its rules and regulations of nude full-body scanners.

A year ago, the Transportation Security Administration was ordered to hold public hearings regarding the use of its full-body scanners at US airport security checkpoints – hearings that never occurred, reported Wired.

In a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in July 2011, claiming the body scanners were intrusive and unconstitutional, the US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block use of the scanners – but ordered the hearings.

Under the Administrative Procedures Act, the TSA would have to go through a 90-day “notice and comment” period for any rules that would affect the rights of the public.

Critics of the machines, including worried air passengers, claim that the radiation used by the scanners to see through clothes are privacy violations and threats to ones health. Some have questioned the scanner’s effectiveness, worrying that the machines might not detect explosives taped to a person’s body – or placed inside the body. These concerns, among others, would have to be addressed at the hearings.

But after the hearings failed to materialize, EPIC continued to file motions to order the TSA to get moving

http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-scanners-court-hearings-725/

A group of people who can force you into a radioactive machine and strip you naked
but not allow a simple public hearing on essential posed questions is unnacceptable and that group should be disbanded. chuckle

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i would choose other word dispelled

not saying what words tho

**Vegas**

No I'm not... I'm at home sitting at my computer nude...

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 111697 08-03-2012 03:31 AM

They pretty much got me to stop flying. Good riddance, have you seen the price for an airline ticket to anywhere lately? Yeesh.

I'm old, slow and seeing the country at train, bus or car speed is just fine by me, thanks. Plenty of beautiful, wonderful, amazing sights to see around this fine country of ours! Spend the time, take it all in... never forget to live in the present, first and foremost, and kick that doom to the background.

**Blitzkreig**

Vegas Wrote:

No I'm not... I'm at home sitting at my computer nude...