Aug 5, 2010

Feds admit storing naked body scans

The naked body scanned images were never stored or recorded - or so we were told.

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.

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