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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."
Your rant is nice except that it isn't the TSA doing this nor has anyone shown that the TSA is or has stored images. The complaint is about the Marshal Service who is also using a completely different model of scanner from a completely different company than the TSA uses. But don't let such facts get in the way.
Relative to Bush, Obama can move star systems with his mind.
He waits for them to move on their own then takes the credit? Yeah, sounds about right... just like his horrible mangling of handing the BP oil spill, or the Somali pirate hostage situation.
I find it hard to describe how much it pisses me off to listen to someone proclaiming full responsibility for something they have absolutely no power to change, ordering the stars to move, and then claiming responsibility when they do.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
There's a reason why the US government of today dwarfs the US government of only 100 years ago, both in revenue and power over the people
Because we live in a vastly more complex society that requires significantly more oversight to effectively function? Because society has grown beyond the point where any person can know everything required to function unaided?