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This 3 page paper argues that airline passengers should expect to give up privacy for security. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Argument: Privacy Is Less Important than Security in Airports Research
Compiled by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction The question of how much liberty one should
trade for security is as old as the Republic itself, with Ben Franklin famously weighing in with the sentiment that anyone willing to trade liberty for security deserved neither. This
paper considers the opposite view, that privacy is less important that security, at least when it comes to screening passengers at airports. Discussion Debate rages over whether or not security
measures are effective, considering the number of people who seem to be able to get things through. But there seems to be little doubt that some sort of screening is
necessary; in fact, passengers were regularly screened for weapons long before 9/11. Its only since the terrorist attacks that security has increased so dramatically. In addition, most of the objections
are not to security screenings themselves, but to the new technologies that are being used in the process. One new screening system is the "backscatter x-ray technology," which can "see
through materials such as clothing" (Sisco). The screener is described as "harmless," but it also produces what are described as "virtually naked images," leading to its being labeled as a
"virtual strip search" (Sisco). Passengers had mixed reactions, from those who feel that "anything to protect our country" was the right attitude, to those who are unhappy but will go
along with it, to those who see it as a gross invasion of privacy (Sisco). The machines are in the test phase now, with the first ones installed at Phoenix,
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