Big Brother is watching you, in more ways than one.
Are the feds hanging on to tens of thousands of full body scan images for those moments when the internet is down and they can’t access porn on their computers?
CNET: This privacy debate, which has been simmering since the days of the Bush administration, came to a boil two weeks ago when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that scanners would soon appear at virtually every major airport. The updated list includes airports in New York City, Dallas, Washington, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, and Philadelphia.
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. In a separate lawsuit, EPIC obtained a letter (PDF) from the Marshals Service, part of the Justice Department, and released it on Tuesday afternoon.
These “devices are designed and deployed in a way that allows the images to be routinely stored and recorded, which is exactly what the Marshals Service is doing,” EPIC executive director Marc Rotenberg told CNET. “We think it’s significant.”
William Bordley, an associate general counsel with the Marshals Service, acknowledged in the letter that “approximately 35,314 images…have been stored on the Brijot Gen2 machine” used in the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse. In addition, Bordley wrote, a Millivision machine was tested in the Washington, D.C. federal courthouse but it was sent back to the manufacturer, which now apparently possesses the image database.
Janet Napolitano promised that these images would be destroyed immediately. Like everything else with this administration, I guess that promise had an expiration date.
Via Maggie’s Notebook, who ads: “Lying Marxists on display – no pun intended.” Actually, it’s us who are on display for the lying Marxists.
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Promises from this administration expire as soon as thy’re uttered. Such is the way with lies.
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Did someone now in a position of authority at the TSA recently transfer from the SEC?
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I’d be willing to bet that they weren’t kept due to some malicious act but rather a failure to be deleted out of incompetence. IMO this starts at the top of the organization.
When was the last time you went through a TSA checkpoint.
TSA or Flipping Burgers at McDonalds …… same skill set, different uniforms and pay.
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