Interview data predates widespread full-body scanner deployment in airports

Evidence

Because body scanners were introduced in 2007 and were not widely used at the time of the majority of the interviews, the Muslim Americans I talked to discussed their experiences with metal detectors. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 159

Categorization

  • QUESTION: A methodological limitation: the visceral accounts of body scanning and privacy invasion that are central to later surveillance debates are absent from this interview corpus.