Federal Court Saves 35,000 Body Scanner Images – 100 Pictures Leaked
It appears that U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 body scanner images on their storage drives. Of those images 100 of them have been leaked out and they are the talk of the water cooler this morning. What are your thoughts on this? Are body scanners here to stay? The TSA and other government agencies have repeatedly touted the quality of “Advanced Imaging Technology” while simultaneously assuring customers that operators “cannot store, print, transmit or save the image, and the image. This is proof that those statements are far from the truth.
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. We understand that it will be controversial to release these photographs. But identifying features have been eliminated. And fortunately for those who walked through the scanner in Florida last year, this mismanaged machine used the less embarrassing imaging technique.
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