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Now mobile x-ray scanners

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On Prison Planet: 4th Amendment Violating Mobile X-Ray Scanners Hit The Streets. As we warned at the beginning of the year, X-ray body scanners currently being used and abused in airports across the world are set to hit the streets as American Science & Engineering reveals that “more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents” have been sold to government agencies. In January, we divulged how the ultimate end use of the body scanners would not be limited to airports, and that they were going to be rolled out on the streets as mobile units that would scan vehicles at checkpoints as well as individuals and crowds attending public events. Dutch police announced that they were developing a mobile scanner that would “see through people’s clothing and look for concealed weapons” and that it would be used “as an alternative to random body searches in high risk areas”...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on August 25, 2010 (boomark / email).