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Especially if it is the government that has the capability.

How many times were we told that the full body scanners at airports would be incapable of storing and transmitting images? Turns out they actually do have that capability. In one courthouse they have been used to store tens of thousands of images, apparently to reduce staffing demands (CNET report here). If something bad happens later, they can go back and check the images. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed suit about this.

The TSA spec document (pdf here), obtained by EPIC, says “the capability to capture images of non-passengers for training and evaluation purposes is needed,” a capability that seems to have been used by one TSA worker to tease another about the size of his genitalia (ACLU report here).

I happen to have no problem personally with full body scanners, but I am sympathetic with people who do. (This is a little a homeless person saying he has no problem with burglars. My body scan would not bring much on the image market.) Of course, what the government has accomplished by misrepresenting what the machines can do is to make it more likely that people like me will resist using them, or cooperating with any other kind of government data gathering. This should have been the lesson of the Bush warrantless wiretaps. It is one of the side effects of government growth that it becomes harder to monitor and those inside it become increasingly relaxed about infringements of publicly stated policies, as along as they judge that the exceptions either minor or due to extraordinary circumstances, and are meant ultimately to benefit the public.

4 Responses to “In the category of anything that can happen, will happen”

  1. Camilla Says:

    I don’t see what’s so hard about compiling an official volunteer training set, anyway. Surely if you set up a scanner in a public place and offered office workers a donut and a chance to see their image, enough of them would step right up.

  2. spence Says:

    To what extent can you control the masses before the masses rise? I am not against our government usuing technology for the benefit of our liberties, and I respect men and women who have given their lives for our liberities. My question remains the same though, To what extent can you control the masses before the masses rise? with technology at all an all time, maybe the youth’s minds are too preoccupied to protest anything.

  3. ali0482 Says:

    The TSA spec document (pdf here), obtained by EPIC, says “the capability to capture images of non-passengers for training and evaluation purposes is needed,”

  4. emlak Says:

    Surely if you set up a scanner in a public place and offered office workers a donut and a chance to see their image, enough of them would step right up.