Franklin Zimring Suggests Changes to Airline Security Procedures

San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2010 by Kevin Fagan and Will Kane
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Frank Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor who studies behavior under stress, said complaints about the enhanced security measures aren’t likely to go away soon. “What bothers people about the body scan machines is that they are not just looking at your metal keys, they are looking at your twoosie,” Zimring said. “So all of a sudden we’re being observed in another way that makes people feel very vulnerable.” It’s worse with pat-downs, he said, because that creates an uncomfortable power situation…. Zimring said passengers might be more tolerant of body-scan machines if they were redesigned to show a less invasive image of the body.