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Full-body scanners supposedly make people nervous. And that makes sense. Individuals don’t tend to like having their bodies exposed, in any form, especially to strangers. However, a new book, Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism, tackles the “real” reason the TSA hasn’t been able to deploy full-body scanners, despite the fact that [...]

A University of Florida professor is all fired up about surveillance practices nationwide — so much so he has written a book! In case you’re interested in checking it out, the title is “Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment.”
As the title suggests, Christopher Slobogin focuses on how surveillance and other [...]