Police agencies admit to saving body scan images
 

Police agencies admit to saving body scan images - Aug 2010
Capabilities of the checkpoint security machines are still shrouded in mystery

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Despite claims by the TSA that electronic body scan images "cannot be stored or recorded," some federal police agencies are in fact saving tens of thousands of images, according to a report by CNET News. The body scanners, increasingly found in airports, courthouses and other places where security is high, use an assortment of technologies.

According to CNET, the U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had saved thousands of images that had been recorded from a security checkpoint in a Florida courthouse. The revelation comes at a tense time. Two weeks ago, when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said such scanners would appear in every major airport, privacy advocates such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington D.C. filed a lawsuit to stop the device rollout.

The reason? Because the devices were "designed and deployed in a way that allows the images to be routinely stored and recorded," EPIC executive director Marc Rotenberg told CNET, adding that this "is exactly what the Marshals Service is doing."

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The TSA maintains that body scanning is "constitutional" and the CNET report notes that while the machines are built to "allow exporting of image data in real time" and provide networked "high-speed transfer of image data," the system are built with filters to "protect the identity, modesty, and privacy of the passenger."

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:2 cents: Fuckin' pervs. :boid

This was to be expected... in fact, leaked documents showed that the TSA actually requested/required that the recording/export feature be added to the scanners.

They are scum, plain and simple...

what do you expect from a bunch of illiterate bimbos in uniform who work for minimum wage

I smell a new celeb website.

Everyone should have known that to begin with.
Now lets wait for the first pervs to setup exchange forums with the kiddy images

As fucked up as this is it is, at least for now, still optional. If you are asked to be scanned ask for a manual pat down instead. You do not have to do this. The more people opt out of being scanned the more likely this will not become the new norm.

If they're going to see my dick, they're going to actually see it!

If you try opt out, won't you have to miss your flight and spend the next 6 hours in a small, shitty paint-starved locked room with a bunch of TSA assholes answering stupid questions and being treated like a fucking criminal?

Yes. Fucking TSA assholes did a body cavity search on my dogs flying out of Maui.

Nah, just takes like 5 minutes unless the agent you are dealing with is being a dick. They may not even manually pat you down.

http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/ait/faqs.shtm

meh, not a big deal.. its still better then blowing up on a plane

The scanners? Sure.
Perv TSA agents keeping the scans? Not cool.

We focus on being killed on the plane a lot.

I remember a train and bus attack also however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_...ondon_bombings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

I also see no reason why the following are not targets :

- casinos
- sports arenas
- shopping malls
- music concerts
- church
- unemployment line
- any fucking line
- any New York city side walk in the day time
- etc....
- any where that people congregate.

Knowing that all the above places, and more, are reasonable targets for terrorism;
I can only concluded that we've gone fucking "airplane crazy" because we fear another
911. Yet we have nothing of the "scanner sort" in any other of these places where
an attack just as horrible as 911 can also occur.

The reason we don't have these things in all the other places is because it's
fucking nuts.

:1orglaugh

And what about the US Ports where maybe 5% of incoming containers are scanned and the chemical plants of private companies that won't shell out extra money for proper security

Our ports are mostly owned by middle east countries anyway, what's the difference?

the only thing these scanners will find are the drugs stashed in womens bras & taped under dudes balls.

Let's bombard our bodies with x-rays every chance we get!! Skin cancer is awesome!!

The underwear bomber got onto the plane escorted by a US agent at a terminal with body scanners already in place. So he was escorted around the scanners via the US agent. Fact, not "conspiracy theory"

The body scanners were ordered years ago but never put into service because they couldn't sell the public on them.. How do you sell the public on them? Place a guy with a fizzle bomb in his pants on a plane during busy holiday travel season and scare them into submission..

I still like the plan to put armed marshals on the planes and return air travel to its former dignity.

Edit: Not that air marshals provide dignity intrinsically, but they could replace all the nonsense at check in with low end workers running intrusive scanners and all that.

You must fly a lot.