privacy, warrantless searches, and airport security

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: September 13, 2005 9:19:39 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: privacy, warrantless searches, and airport security


There was a moderately interesting article in the Wall Street Journal
today on new technologies for airport passenger screening.  One phrase
caught my eye:  "GE's new technology, called the Itemiser FX, which
detects explosives as well as narcotics, costs about $65,000 per machine
and is portable."  Narcotics?  What in the name of the Fourth Amendment
is the justification for putting narcotics sniffers in airports?

        --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb




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