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by rayiner 1118 days ago
I can’t get any normies interested in privacy. Even my wife, who is the most tin-foil-hat woman I know, is perfectly fine with NSA spying, the TSA, etc. Given that, how can anyone say that privacy is “one of the most fundamental human rights?” The masses obviously don’t agree. And who else even has standing to decide what’s a human right and what isn’t?
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Sorry for the confusion, but what is TSA and what did they do?
in the United States, the Transportation Security Administration is most commonly responsible for airport security screenings. This typically involves scanning passengers' belongings with xray equipment and passengers themselves with at least metal detectors. As such there is a markedly reduced expectation to privacy when passing through an airport security checkpoint.