Transportation Security Technology: Legal Ethical Issues

It is important to note that the main applications of biometrics are utilized for preventing fraud and ensuring security. The use of biometrics has increased tremendously but so has social, ethical, privacy, practical and even political issues associated with it (Duquenoy, Jones & Blundell, 2008). Following is the detail regarding its ethical and privacy issue implications.

There are obvious pros and cons of the scanner, which in my opinion does not come down to our naked images. This is America after all, home of Hue Hefner, and playboy. I don’t see the big deal with one hidden person taking a scanned image of a body that lasts only a few seconds then moves on to the next customer. These scanners are not meant to harass or annoy people rather, save lives.

The federal government assured the public that pictures would not be recorded and saved from these machines.  That is not the case.  The scanner that was uses in a Florid courthouse showed the actual “people side-by-side with their X-rayed selves” (Allahpundit).  Why did the government outright lie to the public?  To save their own asses, of course.  This is in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.  The amendment gives people the right to be secure in their persons against unreasonable searches.  I believe the scanning of humans and taking pictures of their faces violates this.   Shockingly, former TSA security director, Mo McGowan, openly stated on fox news that “Nobody likes to have their 4th Amendment violated going through a security line, but the truth of the matter is, we’re going to have to do it” (Left Coast Rebel).  Excuse me? Did this man actually say this in public?  It’s not shocking that he’s no longer the security director.

Another measure TSA took was to add body scanners to security. These scanners can see what a person is carrying underneath their clothes. There have been a few different designs to this machine due to some lawsuits in the past brought up because the TSA agents were making fun of a man’s gentile size or certain passengers would feel embarrassed because someone can see their bodies. Now what the TSA agent sees is an outline of the passenger’s body and whatever is on the body. The body scanner does not show a naked person anymore.

The current screening method is the body scanner which has been reported on multiple times by the news as it is consider invasive in nature. The screener is able to see the passenger’s nude image, but software updates have eliminated this providing only detection of metallic and nonmetallic threats. The prior method of a metal detector which did not alarm staff if nonmetallic threats existed allowed C-4 explosive (a clay type of explosive) to board the plan. The body scanners are quicker than the former methods of a “pat down”, which every passenger had to endure and were less invasive. This system will be used by the TSA until a better method is discovered, which will provide faster screening, more privacy to passengers and better detection of threats. The cost of this has rising over the years but it was the initial setup of the TSA in 2002 which cost the most since there was not an agency within this realm that completed these duties.

Microchipping people isrecognized as one of the most popular evolutional technologies that could change people 's life style and standard. Human implanting has the potential ability of saving life when emergency; it is capable of improving efficiency at work and life quality of life. Also it can bring evolutional change to the security system forever. With that mass of expectation, microchipping people also brings people equivalent large amount of concerning, people are worried about the consequence of implanting things that are unnatural, radioactive or privacy-threaten into their bodies and unlikely to be taken out undamaging to body. In this report, advantages and disadvantages of the technology will be shown with discussion of engineers responsibility regards on real life cases.

Although Surveillance of terrorism, is extremely labor intensive and costly. Surveillance cameras and terrorism control technology are popping up everywhere. Many big cities across the country including New York, Cincinnati, Seattle and Chicago are allocating budget dollars to install surveillance cameras and to get the most up to date surveillance technology. This surveillance technology has improved to a degree that it allows the government and law enforcement to track people without having them to physical followed someone 24 hours a day. This new technology has allowed many states to implement programs for monitoring people in order to collect intelligence, to shut down a narcotic operation, or to establish probable cause.

While advancements in technology are continuously on the rise, so are the concerns of how they will affect the privacy the fourth amendment protects. The question of how modern technology will violate the natural rights of the people can not only be asked by society, but also by law enforcement officials. Officers would have to distinguish the surveillance techniques that contravene the law of privacy from those that do not. In the case Kyllo v. United States (2001), the police used a thermal scanner to read the heat signatures given off by Kyllo’s house. Their intent was to find abnormal heat patterns, search the home, and therefore confirm their suspicions of marijuana growth. While they were successful in finding illegal activities being

The officials at the airports are required to conduct random searches to ensure the safety of the citizens and themselves; however, these searches are not always random. William Raspberry goes over how officials should stay away from exploiting their powers and using more practical precautions like reviewing the passengers lists and enhancing the doors on the planes.

This scanner will take a photo of your car and it can see if you are hiding a person inside or if you are trying to bring things over into the United States that are illegal. All of these high tech equipment can also read body temperature. The border control also has a lot of high tech security cameras that are on 24/7. To get around the large land easily and fast they use trucks, horses, four-wheelers, and airplanes. With all this equipment the border control has stopped many immigrants from crossing over the border and has stopped people from smuggling drugs over to the United

The machine that is the whole-body scanner has been viewed in a negative light publicly since its inception. Society generally has looked down upon the device, whether it be from people’s lack of understanding the technology, disliking the touch of a stranger or fear that one’s private parts man be exposed. However, people continue to go along with the device, each person for their different reasons.

We live in a world today, in which technology moves at a very rapid pace. Many of these technological advances can be used to make our everyday lives easier and safer. One of these new technologies is Biometrics. Biometrics is the process of measuring a person’s physical properties. This would include measuring things like fingerprints, retinas, odor, vein structure on the back of the hand and many other things. Biometrics is a very important topic because it would create better security precautions for certain places that need to be secure. Biometrics will make our society safer by only allowing authorized people out of secure facilities and by keeping the unauthorized people out. Throughout the rest of this

The advancement in the technology is believed by the employees’ as actions to limit their privacy by the employers. Henceforth, workplace surveillance creates a legal issue in the work environment. The employees’ believe that their rights get violated when their employer keep a close watch on their activities.

In the modern world there have been a lot of technological advances within societies. Technology concerns about security and surveillance has changed the thoughts of people. This surveillance technology consist of spying video cameras, CCTV security and surveillance cameras, surveillance electronic communications, face recognition and many others. Some people think this technology is okay while others carry a different view.  These people feel that it is an invasion of privacy, especially when it is in a public place. Use of surveillance technology are impinging on our privacy as they are affecting student moral, privacy at workplace, behavior of people, life

Biometrics is used in many places and there is a bright future for them. Coca Cola has recently replaced time card system with hand scanning machines. Finger print scanners are being used in many states of the US. They have been used to trace social welfare fraud. An iris pattern identification system is being used in Cook County, Illinois to ensure that right people are released from jail. ATM machines have been installed with finger scanners to prevent theft and fraud in Indiana (Jain, 2005).