{"id":3479,"date":"2013-06-22T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2013-06-22T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T18:25:28","slug":"tsa-comments-due-monday-1159-p-m-eastern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2013\/06\/22\/tsa-comments-due-monday-1159-p-m-eastern\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Comments due *Monday*, 11:59 p.m. Eastern"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you’re tired of the TSA to electronically strip-searching us, abusing and humiliating people, making kids cry, and wasting billions of dollars on technology that doesn’t actually make us more secure, make sure to file your comments by Monday June 24 at 11:59 p.m. \u00c2\u00a0 You can theoretically\u00c2\u00a0 submit comments online via regulations.gov<\/a> (although as I write this the site isn’t working), or by FAX or mail.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 See the first reply to this post for more about how to file comments.<\/p>\n

The most effective comments include personal experiences, and be specific about what you want to happen and why.\u00c2\u00a0 EPIC recommends that commenters support \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Regulatory Alternative #3\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 (the use of walk through metal detectors and explosive trace detection devices) and support the right of passengers to opt out.\u00c2\u00a0 tsacomments.net<\/a> has a lot more information about the various issues.\u00c2\u00a0 You can see my comment below; feel free to use any of the language.<\/p>\n

The number of comments sent in to the TSA matter. If the TSA doesn’t get a lot of comments, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll say it shows that most people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any problem with the body scanners or TSA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s other security procedures. But if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a much more vocal response, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much harder for the TSA to ignore them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re required by law to reply to all the issues that are brought up in the commenting period.<\/p>\n

So please, send in your comments!<\/p>\n

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My comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

The proposed rule is vaguely written and should be withdrawn, and the practices it would authorizes should be suspended.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 TSA should conduct a new cost-benefit analysis that fully considers the impact of body scanners and pat-downs on traveler privacy.<\/p>\n

If the rule is not withdrawn, it should be modified to adopt Regulatory Alternative #3 (walk-through metal detectors as primary screening and explosives trace detection on a random set of passengers) instead of AIT and pat-downs.<\/p>\n

AIT, as compared to WTMD and ETD, is extremely costly: the machines, training for the personnel to operate them, and the wasted time waiting in security lines are all hugely expensive, without providing additional value — tests at multiple European airports all led to dropping the AIT machines.\u00c2\u00a0 As a business traveler, the extra time spent in line and the unpleasantness of the putdown process creates a significant impact on my travel.\u00c2\u00a0 The docket claims that the machines do not introduce additional delays, but this is clearly not the case in practice: when lines get long, metal detector lanes are opened to speed people through the gates.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, the use of AIT as a primary screening technology fails the test laid out in US v. Hartwell that screening must be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153minimally intrusive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153effective\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153well-tailored to protect personal privacy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

To the extent TSA continues the use of body scanners and pat-downs, the final rule should codify minimum protections, including guaranteeing individual passenger image data is not retained; that all physical searches are conducted by officers of the same self-identified gender; that secondary screening will be conducted in private at passenger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s election; that searches to resolve an anomaly are no more intrusive then necessary to resolve the anomaly; that screeners receive training on working with diverse populations; and that no traveler will be subject to discrimination on the basis of religion or gender identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re tired of the TSA to electronically strip-searching us, abusing and humiliating people, making kids cry, and wasting billions of dollars on technology that doesn’t actually make us more secure, make sure to file your comments by Monday June 24 at 11:59 p.m. \u00c2\u00a0 You can theoretically\u00c2\u00a0 submit comments online via regulations.gov (although as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}