<![CDATA[A year ago, the Transportation Security Agency in San Francisco snapped the screen off my Powerbook and handed it back without an apology. They further informed me I had no recourse for recovering the cost for at least six months, which the officer who handed me the document indicated meant I'd never see a dime.
I haven't enjoyed my encounters with the TSA's since, but try being a former Idaho Congresswoman who asked why the TSA was entitled to conduct a secondary search of her person before boarding a flight [from Warblogging.com]. She was told she was not entitled to see the regulation and prevented from boarding her plane. When the Idaho Statesman asked the director of the TSA at the local airport why she wasn’t allowed to see the regulation, he said, “Because we don’t have to. That is called ‘sensitive security information’. She’s not allowed to see it, nor is anyone else.”
Having had $2,500 in uncompensated damage committed on my property by the TSA, I am not surprised. But the idea that laws exist that no one can see, that’s out of bounds and un-American.]]>
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On the secret rules of invasion of privacy
<![CDATA[A year ago, the Transportation Security Agency in San Francisco snapped the screen off my Powerbook and handed it back without an apology. They further informed me I had no recourse for recovering the cost for at least six months, which the officer who handed me the document indicated meant I'd never see a dime. […]