OF POLITICS, PROFILE! AND PASSENGERS: OUR CONFUSION OVER CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY

摘要

The recent furore over full-body scanning and its ancillary counterpart, the "invasive" pat-down, are but the latest issues in the ever-entertaining world of civil aviation security. Virtually every innovation involving screening of passengers and their baggage over the past forty years has involved a similar uproar and protestations of diminishing civil liberties. These most recent events are no exception. First to inveigh against such intrusions are the politicians.