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Old 11-17-2010, 07:18 AM  
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:stop One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans



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At the heart of the controversy over "body scanners" is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.

A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly-perhaps illegally-saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens.
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read more here: http://gizmodo.com/5690749/

so how much more privacy are we willing to give up in the name of "security"?
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