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This is just a bit

by Bryan Strawser · Mar 14, 2002

This is just a bit too much.  I’m a security professional, but this takes things to just a bit of an extreme…



New York Times – free registration required At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged.


Steve Mann, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs. Although his wearable computer system sometimes elicited stares, he never encountered any problems going through the security gates at airports.


Last month that changed. Before boarding a Toronto-bound plane at St. John’s International Airport in Newfoundland, Dr. Mann says, he went through a three-day ordeal in which he was ultimately strip- searched and injured by security personnel. During the incident, he said, $56,800 worth of his $500,000 equipment was lost or damaged beyond repair, including the eyeglasses that serve as his display screen.

[Privacy Digest]

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