You'll Soon Look Back Fondly On The Days The TSA Only Groped Your Genitals
Catherine Crawford writes at Venice Patch:
Here are five new stealthy scans you might unwittingly undergo (well) before boarding your next flight:1) Your employment and any criminal information. The T.S.A. has within its grasp all of our tax identification numbers and law enforcement information.
2) Your debtors. According to The New York Times, "an update about the T.S.A.'s Transportation Security Enforcement Record System, which contains information about travelers accused of 'violations or potential violations' of security regulations, warns that the records may be shared with a debt collection agency for the purpose of debt collection." 'Potential'? Yikes.
3) Your car registration: Because you drive to the airport, now the T.S.A. gets to look at this? Sure, the "T" stands for Transportation, but the bulk of T.S.A.'s work has to do with airline security. Why is my car involved?
The "NYT picks" comments on the NYT article are worth reading.







I'm so disappointed at what's been happening since 2001. I really enjoyed the 90s. Can't explain how this happened from the relative liberty of the 90s. All this spying on foreign gov. officials and the local citizens is more reminiscent of a paranoia, sort of like the cultural revolution 50 years ago in China. Same exact steps are going on. Very creepy.
Stinky the Clown at October 28, 2013 3:00 PM
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