The Pros And Cons Of Using TSA

Always Being Watched (Or At Least When You’re in an Airport) Did you know that as soon as you walk into an airport, you’re immediately being watched by the TSA through their surveillance systems? The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, should not be scanning people through their Secure Flight program. I believe it is an unnecessary security measure that is also an invasion of everyone’s privacy. There are already so many anti-terrorism methods implemented into airports; yet the overprotection offered by this method comes at a price. The Secure Flight program is a system implemented by the TSA into American airports that identifies people based on information that is already known by them. This information consists of things such as your name, age, race and gender. It then recognizes someone from a database based on this previously known information. When I traveled from Logan International Airport, I was completely unaware that I was being scanned while I was walking around, waiting for my flight. I went through

In 1984, the main character, Winston, is being oppressed by the Inner Party, just like everyone else. One of the ways the Inner Party stops people from acting out against them is through the “telescreens”, which are basically security cameras in every room that allow them to arrest anyone who seems suspicious. Orwell creates an image of always being watched in 1984 when Winston thinks to himself, “He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon night and day” (Orwell 166). Much like the telescreens used by the Inner Party to scan the Outer Party and proles, the TSA uses security systems to scan everyone in airports and discover their identity matched to already known