Safety Vs Privacy Research Paper

Safety vs. Privacy? Why the change? Before the attack of the twin towers on September 11, 2001 the security in airports wasn’t as strict. Now, in airports all throughout the world have been installing new scanners to vamp up the security procedures. These scanners are similar to x-ray machines; they just go through the clothes to show what is underneath someone’s clothes. Jeffery Rosen and Connie Shultz both present decent arguments on the full body scanner issue in their articles by using the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) regulations, privacy issues, security and the way they present their articles. Jeffery Rosen, a professor at George Washington University Law School, comments regularly on legal affairs and has a few books on issues such as privacy and the courts. In his article, “Nude Awakening,” Rosen wants to inform everyone that does travel through the United States of the issues that go hand in hand with these new scanners. He completely disagrees with the decision to use this specific type of scanner. In his opinion the machine are wastes of money, and does not
In her article, “New Airport Policy: Grin and Bare It,” she criticizes the people who don’t agree, but her main purpose is to persuade the travelers that there is nothing wrong with the scanners. Unlike Rosen, Shultz is completely for the use of these scanners in airports. She sees no reason why the United States citizens should have an issue with these scanners, being that these specific scanners are the governments choice, when the citizens trust the government with so much else; such as licenses, seat belts, traffic laws, and assuming other drivers on the road passed the same drivers test by the government. Shultz believes that everyone that says they don’t trust the government needs to either suck it up, or just don’t use the