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...prospect of implementing the SmartCheck nationwide should sound great to most rational people, but the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) disagrees. The ACLU has wasted little time in rallying its lawyers to persuade Congress to ban the use of such technology for routine security screening. Because X-rays pass through clothing, an ACLU officer, quoted in the New York Times, dubbed the scan a “virtual strip search,” claiming that the additional security of the scan is not worth the loss of passenger privacy...
Questions have also been raised about the machine’s safety. X-ray exposure is generally considered unhealthy, so if passengers had to receive a hefty dose of them every time they were about to step on a plane, using the SmartCheck would be a blatant violation of civil liberties...
Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy Marshall L. Ganz, who cut short his Harvard undergraduate career in 1964 to volunteer as a civil rights organizer in Mississippi, called next year’s election the “most important election since...
...would you strengthen U.S. borders while at the same time respecting the civil and human rights of immigrants to America? -Martin Cheek from San Jose, California...
...There is no conflict between respecting the civil and human rights of an immigrant and having a very defined level of border security, which could include physical or electronic barriers. If that so then I should be offended that when I go into a building-I have to sign in-or when I attend many athletics events-I have to go through magnetometer-or when I go to airports-I have to go through numerous layers of security and prove who I am with a photo identification. We ask that of our own citizens, it is not unreasonable that...