Jeffrey Rosen: TSA Pat-Downs And Body Scans Are Unconstitutional

But the public seems less opposed to the scanners than civil libertarians had hoped.

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That's because the public isn't well informed about the health risks that continuing these searches pose:

TSA agents often do not change their latex gloves between pat-downs! With these pat-down reaching into your pants, feeling your genitals, and sweeping bare armpits and buttocks, those latex gloves being worn by the TSA agents are obviously teeming with germs.

And yet TSA agents often don't change gloves between patting down passengers. They're often using the same gloves on you and your crotch as they were using on the previous passenger's exploratory crotch feel.

This means, of course, that the TSA is now engaged in extremely risky behavior that could spread sexually-t­ransmitted disease, cold viruses, skin fungi (such as ringworm), and even contribute to a pandemic outbreak.

So now, while the TSA claims to be protecting your safety, they could actually be infecting you with pandemic disease at the same time.

The article doesn't discuss it, but risk of contracting MRSA (which is spread through contact to the skin) is great from these searches.

The scanners are no safer.
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