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Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images

Posted by timothy on from the we-are-neither-amused-nor-surprised dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Of course they can by Shakrai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A lot of people voted for Obama because they thought he would hold true to his word and try to restore a lot of what we had lost, shut down Gbay, etc

    With respect, what did "we" (the people, presumably) lose with Gitmo? When has it ever been held that foreign nationals with no connection to our country other than the desire to destroy it whom aren't even captured on American soil have Constitutional Rights? The people who conspired to murder President Lincoln and decapitate the Federal Government were tried by military commission. German saboteurs that came ashore during WW2 were tried by military commission. Why should foreign terrorists be treated any differently?

    I'm in full agreement with the President and his base on the issue of torture but I get off the bus when they start talking about extending Constitutional Rights to foreign terrorists and/or enemy combatants. If we ever get involved in another conventional war (i.e: nation-state vs. nation-state) should we also grant the POWs that we capture the right of habeas corpus and judicial review?

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    I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  2. Re:They could wedge something in there! by dissy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when the first vagina grenade goes off on a crowded plane, what will you say?

    "Oh no... now I'll NEVER find the clitoris!"

    That's easy. It's right there. And a bit of it over there. And a lot of it all along there...