The security measurements become increasingly more invading to our privacy, up to the point where, if all are implemented, we simply do not have any. Every single thing in luggage scrutinized, our very bodies scrutinized by handling and x-ray where we might as well be naked.

Three new articles about this problem:


Baggage: Comments from staff on content of luggage:

TSA To Passenger: “Get Your Freak On Girl”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/tsa-to-p...#ixzz1bsepWhiJ

Your person:

TSA Denies Asking Passenger To Remove Adult Diaper

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/update-t...#ixzz1bsfEJtwH

Staff:

Unconstitutional TSA Bill Could Shut Down Texas’ Airports

"The practical import of the bill is that it would threaten criminal prosecution of Transportation Security Administration personnel who carry out the security procedures required under federal statutes and TSA regulations passed to implement those statutes."

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/unconsti...#ixzz1bsffNJ1y


What is reasonable in terms of safety? Just how dangerous is air travel now?

What is reasonable in terms of privacy? Just how far can you go in invading other people?

What about the situation of the staff?

There is a clear commercial interest in fuelling nervousness about travelling - what is the impact of that?

In my own opinion, it has all gone completely crazy, and the situation for staff and passengers alike has become unbearable and is utterly out of proportion ot the actual risk . I fly between UK and DK on a regular basis, and I would not dream of doing it there was a ferry! And that is without the denuding x-ray idiocy, the long-term effect if which I do not think anyone knows.