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Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images
The new generation of body scanners employed at airports (and many other places) can record detailed, anatomically revealing pictures of each person scanned, which is one reason they've raised the hackles of privacy advocates as well as ordinary travelers. Now, AHuxley writes "The US Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer that 'scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.' It turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images. The US Marshals Service admitted that it had saved ~35,314 images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.
The images were stored on a Brijot Gen2 machine. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to grant an immediate injunction to stop the TSA's body scanning program."
So you actually think Obama is competent?
Do you have ESP?
:-) Too fuckin' easy...I just wanted to give you an out from the gist of the message. You swallowed it whole... while ignoring the meat.. No dessert for you!
thankyouvermuch
What's RKBA? Oh.. nevermind... you apparently got me wrong there, too. You're a real pip there, Edith
Given the statistics in airline history, the risk/benefit ratio indicates that it would be best to check yer gun and explosives at the door.
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>unreasonable searches unless a warrant is obtained.
Actually you aren't being subjected to an unreasonable search. You choose to get on an airplane. It's optional. If your job forces you to fly, get a new one. If you don't want to be searched you can turn around and walk out of the airport. Airplanes have been hijacked and blown up. If you want to fly, loss of privacy comes with the territory because I want my flight to end in a landing, not an explosion. To me it's perfectly reasonable to search everyone before they get on and make sure they aren't going to blow up the plane, because it's happened before and it will happen again.
That being said, these scanners are security theater. They don't work. You can just put a gun up your ass. You can make your shoe soles out of C4 and hide the detonator in the lining of your luggage, or even your iPhone. You should be strip searched by a person. In fact to do it right, everyone needs to be strip searched and subjected to a mass spectrometer. Every electronic device needs to be disassembled and checked, or not allowed on the plane. These machines are worthless.
This is why I exercise my right to not be searched or blown up by refusing to fly.
Don't kid yourself. It's the size of the regexp AND how you use it that counts.