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SAY IT AIN?T SO: TSA Misleading The Public About Body Scanners? A privacy group says the Transpo?

By Glenn Reynolds

SAY IT AIN’T SO: TSA Misleading The Public About Body Scanners?

A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images.

The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said.

In the documents, obtained by the privacy group and provided to CNN, the TSA specifies that the body scanners it purchases must have the ability to store and send images when in “test mode.”

That requirement leaves open the possibility the machines — which can see beneath people’s clothing — can be abused by TSA insiders and hacked by outsiders, said EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg.

Good grief.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).