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Wallace108
08-04-2010, 01:12 PM
Why am I not surprised? :noidea:

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html

SteelersinCA
08-04-2010, 03:04 PM
Why am I not surprised? :noidea:

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html

To be fair, the TSA is different than the US Marshal. But on the other hand you could advance the argument the government is the government is the government.

Wallace108
08-04-2010, 03:11 PM
Not only that, SiCA, but they lied. They said the images couldn't be recorded or stored. Apparently, they can be.

SteelersinCA
08-04-2010, 03:25 PM
Maybe the TSA has different machines?

Wallace108
08-04-2010, 03:38 PM
Maybe the TSA has different machines?

They do have different machines. But the TSA earlier said that images from their body scanners couldn't be recorded or saved. Then later on this comes out:


This follows an earlier disclosure by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for "testing, training, and evaluation purposes." The agency says, however, that those capabilities are not normally activated when the devices are installed at airports.

If they're now saying that the recording and storing capabilities aren't "normally activated," then why are they requiring them to have those capabilities? Why to they need to test and train in those capabilities if they don't plan to use them? And now we learn that other federal agencies are doing exactly that ...

SteelCityMan786
08-04-2010, 10:26 PM
Not only that, SiCA, but they lied. They said the images couldn't be recorded or stored. Apparently, they can be.

They're not the only govt. agency guilty of that.

The WH
08-06-2010, 02:39 AM
hahahahahahah ass clowns

Wallace108
08-06-2010, 03:32 AM
They're not the only govt. agency guilty of that.

True.


hahahahahahah ass clowns

Who is that comment directed toward?