Obama Administration to Take a Stand on Privacy, But it Ain’t Fixing the Strip‐​Search Machine Morass

At least one report has it that a Commerce Department official will announce the Obama administration’s support for “baseline privacy legislation” at a Wednesday Senate Commerce Committee hearing.


You mean, like, the Fourth Amendment? If only it were so.


The action is in the House Government Reform Committee, which is holding a hearing on the Transportation Security Administration’s strip‐​search machines. What’s the administration’s “baseline privacy policy” on that?


I’ve already written two posts in the last year (1, 2) titled “Physician, Heal Thyself”…