Nov 21 2008
Post 911 and Privacy 06; Aviation and Transportation Security Act
Home land Security has a link to a hearing on the implementation of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. This link mainly focuses on screening and checking baggage. When it comes to privacy airline travelers where the first and most prominent group to have their privacy challenged post 911. This is just the beginning on hearings regarding airline security which today include security being allowed to take a passenger’s laptop off premises and have it tested in a lab for relevant information extraction. The airline passenger offers up his personal baggage and bodily privacy on behave of security with the hope that he shall be able to travel more safely to his next airport. Read up on the first hearings regarding airport security and how it is security began to come to where they are now on the topic of privacy rights.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/2002_h/020123-memo.htm