Welcome to America: Fliers Can't Balk at Search

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Wired News.

[snip]

The old Hunter S. Thompson slogan, "Buy the ticket, take the ride," took on a new meaning Friday when a federal court 
ruled that airline passengers who enter the airport screening process cannot change their minds once they're singled 
out for a more extensive search.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled [.pdf] that travelers who walk through the airport metal detector implicitly 
consent to a search of their persons and bags, and they can't revoke that consent once the process has started.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70450-0.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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