Senator wants law to make publishing scanner photos illegals

Sen. Chuck Schumer of NY introduced a bill Sunday making it illegal to record or distribute images from a full body scan. If guilty the penalty would be one year in jail and/or a $100,00 fine.

The TSA claims it's impossible to record or transmit images.

So let's get this straight, if a TSA employee is the only one supposedly able to see these images, then he or she would be the only ones capable of recording or distributing the images. Right? Shouldn't this be an internal TSA rule rather than a bill?

Or does Chuck Schumer know something we don t?

NY Times Article

(Frank II)

Comments

[Melissa]

Couldn't a TSA employee, with monetary intentions, easily publish a scanner photo if they wanted. I'm sure someone would throw an obscene amount of money their way. I agree with Schumer

[Frank II]

Supposedly.....capital "S" and underline supposedly, TSA employees who work in the "scanner" room are not permitted to have any type of recording device or camera on them.

[Stan]

Of course its possible. TSA employee uses a cell phone camera to take a photo of the monitor attached to the scanning system while the image is displayed. I guess they would say their employees wouldn't do that?

[Mark]

If you look at the bill closely there is much more to it. What is being publicized is the TSA element. The bill aims to make it illegal to make ANY kind of recording in security so I suspect that despite the headlines, the true purpose is to stop people recording events that occur in secure areas.