Scan safeguards no match for sex, celebrity

Airline screeners at a London airport printed and copied the full-body scan of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan even though the authorities had promised that the scans would be instantly deleted and that the staff would be unaware of whom they were screening.
Khan was good-natured about it. He said on British TV that as he was leaving the scanner, "I saw these girls -- they had printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were forms you had to fill. I said, 'Give them to me' -- and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them."
He was, after all, in England on a publicity tour for his new film, "My Name Is Khan," about the tribulations of an Indian Muslim couple who must cross the United States to reunite in the aftermath of 9/11.
The combination of curiosity and prurience can be overwhelming. There were the passport clerks who made unauthorized searches of the applications of film stars and prominent politicians.
Given human nature, these lapses are almost bound to happen. Most of us lack Khan's intoxicating draw of sex and celebrity, but all that stands between us and appearing nude on the Internet is the TSA's good intentions.
09/02/10 Editorial/Dale McFeatters, Scripps News

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Categories: Airports Feb 2010, Foreign Feb 2010