Comments on: TSA Body Scanners See It All

By: qwertyman

qwertyman — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:22 +0000

http://www.nationalledger.com/ledgerdc/article_272633774.shtml

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TSA Test Mode Image Store Privacy Concern – Airport Full Body Scanner
By Marty Cox
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Privacy concerns for the new airport full body scanner. The TSA admits they can store images of people they scan. The units can store in test mode and the images can be sent over broadband or by other methods and stored on off-site hard drive. Just last year the Transportation Security Administration said they wouldn’t store the images.

Privacy concerns aside, Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano says it is full steam ahead and said airport body scanners will soon appear at virtually every major airport.

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Just last summer the Transportation Security Administration claimed that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded,” reports CNet.

Now they have been caught doing just that. At least one machine in an Orlando, FL courthouse has stored over 35,000 images of people that passed through the machine.

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Some are furious.

According to the report: “The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to grant an immediate injunction pulling the plug on TSA’s body scanning program.”

More details from CNet.

The question the group wants answered in a court “Does this violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches?”

By: Martina

Martina — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:04:56 +0000

This scanner body is very beautifull.

By: Freyar

Freyar — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:21:46 +0000

That’s the straw. No more air travel for me. Thank god I got my last trip done before these were announced.

The TSA isn’t doing this to make their job ‘more effective’, they are doing this because they want shiney technologically advanced toys.

That and whoever is making these decisions is a pervert. Wonder if they will require waivers to be signed when people pass through them. I smell lawsuits.

By: mmayday

mmayday — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:02:08 +0000

#17

Uh, no.

But hey, at least you won’t be blown up by nonexistent bombs. That’s cool. Right?

By: caranpaima

caranpaima — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:35:51 +0000

I wonder how many of this devices you could have bought with the billions (or was it trillions) wasted in pointless wars abroad. Betcha you could have any airport in America fully equipped with these.

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:53:38 +0000

Where can I buy an RFID-shielded thong?

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:18:50 +0000

>>since us middle class white people seem to only
>>find it a nuisance.

George Carlin? “middle class”? Now that’s funny. I wish I made that kind of “middle class” money!

By: Miss_X2b

Miss_X2b — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:52:15 +0000

This is a total wet dream for any pervert. I wonder how many sex offenders will be rushing off to local airports seeking employment. I also wonder if children will also be subject to this scan.

By: Dreamwolf

Dreamwolf — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:51:00 +0000

It’s like George Carlin was saying in one of his performances, quote: “I’m tired of some guy with a double-digit IQ and a triple-digit income rooting around inside of my bag for no reason and never finding anything. Haven’t found anything yet. Haven’t found one bomb in one bag.” I may not agree with him and where he stood on alot of issues, but I can agree when he says that airport security is just a croc of crap made up to make white people feel safer. Although, I would say it’s more for the richer folks since us middle class white people seem to only find it a nuisance.

By: GF

GF — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:19:33 +0000

Yeah, those employees don’t have a cell phone camera pointed at the monitor. Hell, with qix they could stream it live to the web. I can see it now. TSA employee makes $150,000 for pics of Kelly Clarkson.

By: bh28630

bh28630 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:13:43 +0000

All this hi tech equipment in the hands of people who could not get hired at McDonalds is amusing but then the TSA is little more than a window dressing to make the public believe they are safer. A terrorist need not bring anything into the country via an aircraft since they can purchase enough deadly chemicals to wipe out any major city after a brief visit WalMart and a stop at the local reservoir. And the ports are an even bigger joke because cargo is very poorly screened.

By: Peter iNova

Peter iNova — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:12:13 +0000

“Yes, your honor, we detected the terrorist spoon in his pocket with the ProVision machine.”
“Can you show me how that happened?”
“Here, your honor, are the pictures. Notice the unmistakably recognizable facial features, the small genitalia, the appendix scar, the scar from pacemaker surgery and the terrorist spoon—plastic, so as to escape detection—in his pocket.”
“It’s good you have these images, counselor, otherwise I would have been inclined to let Mr. Cheney go free.”

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:53:52 +0000

Total Recall?

By: eyeofthetiger

eyeofthetiger — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:41:09 +0000

If a person has an erection could that be grounds for a sexual misconduct charge?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:07:57 +0000

#8
I’ve been doing quite a bit of travel myself lately. Mostly to Europe on business. I find the techniques used in most airports to be equally intrusive. It almost feels like a conspiracy against people that refuse to check bags.