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Bezos return of investment for sucking up to Trump (media.piefed.social)

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

For example, when body scanners became a thing at airports, it was reported that one of the major contractors in the effort was a personal friend of Barack Obama.

I can't find anything on this. Can you point me towards a source?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Will probably have to look at newspaper archives. It was reported on at the time in the wake of the underwear bombing attempt. There was a lot of controversy around it, not just because of the grift, but because of health and privacy risks associated with the tech. And the alternative to walking through the scanner was to get systematically groped by the TSA.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I remember the privacy concerns for sure. I can't find anything about any grift though, nor do I remember ever hearing about it. If true, that's pretty significant.