airlines look to torture passengers
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- moldero
even more.
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A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).This bracelet would:
• Take the place of an airline boarding pass
• Contain personal information about the traveler
• Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage
• Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes
The Electronic ID Bracelet, as it’s referred to, would be worn by every traveler “until they disembark the flight at their destination.” Yes, you read that correctly. Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if the passenger got out of line.
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- welded0
It's pretty creepy and I can't imagine people putting up with it, but it'll happen...
- ribit0
Wow the PowerPoint slides are so bad.. The bracelet design is well, there isn't one... the perspective is way wrong...
For the sake of good design, someone has to stop them!
- rainman0
I think it's a brilliant concept!
- detritus0
I read this last week sometime and was struck by the sheer impracticality of it all (cost, hygiene, effectiveness in use, civil rights, etc etc), which made me appreciate how unlikely this is in the forseeable future (as well as it having already been debunked elsewhere).
Aside from anything, once it's on, all you'd need to do is put a rubber hand, piece of thick tape or sleeve of plastic top (outerwear, etc) around your wrist, so the tazing points don't make contact with the skin.
It's just not a very good or likely idea.
- fafore0
amputees, cripples, people with casts... Anklets?
- ribit0
fear?
Fear is the thing that would kill this, if it was even a serious proposal.
People would simply be scared of a thing that they have been told can stun them, and will not fly, or refuse to put it on, and if forced would try to disable, in plain view, and with good excuse ("I'm scared of it")... so the whole thing has no chance for mass use even before you get into rights etc..
- ribit0
if they dropped the stun part, a thin paper/plastic wearable tracking tag/boarding pass would be more likely to work (it's already common for music events, people are used to it in that context), but I think they are further along with iris scanning anyway, which is more reliable...
- 0000000
I see that a few of you are starting to wear the tin foil hat
enjoy your own version of fascism
- 0000000
btw this bracelet is really not about security because we all know how instable can be some products (see diebold), but the funny thing here is that it won't make you more secure, this bracelet if it ever comes into a real phase of testing is only about control, yes control,
like the carrying of a max of 100ml onboard, its not about security, its about control,
like having your laptop/ipod/usb devices ripped from his data, its not about security but control
and at every stage of this fall into fascism the public goes along thinking they are getting more secure flight,btw I also read this last week and hopefully this won't go nowhere,
+ if a "terror-ist" wants to get to a destination can't he ride the train/bus/car
- the ones they are worried about are the ones who don't want to get to a destination.ribit
- simple_space0
yeah, this has been the most over-hyped, BS article this week. Get real.
- _salisae_0
they have literally invented a wrist terrorizer!
- utopian10
some sick shit
- sikma0
this seems like a temporary solution until theres a device that will be attached directly to your balls
- Redmond0
Haven't they learned anything from people dying from tazer attacks??? WTH
- Redmond0
LOL What if a terrorist gets hold of the controller for all the wrists. Instant hostage situation! What a dumb plan.
- Meeklo0
that "new" face recognition system, has been used in Vegas's casinos for what now? 5, 7 years?
I think they misspelled defense too.
- gramme0
I don't think it'll fly.
I still hate Delta Airlines though, with a deep and abiding loathing.
- drgs0
i want to take every flight exclusively with taser bracelet