Saturday, 12 March 2011

USA to begin body-scanning pedestrians?

Over at Forbes, there's a truly alarming write-up of documents uncovered by our friends at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which reveal a TSA Research Proposal to Body-Scan pedestrians and train passengers: Giving Transportation Security Administration agents a peek under your clothes may soon be a practice that goes well beyond airport checkpoints. Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile scanning units that can be set up at public events and in train stations, along with mobile x-ray vans capable of scanning pedestrians on city...

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