Criminal Law

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
cnet / Privacy Inc: "The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse...

PRIVACY AND LIES: Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images. For the last few years, federa
PRIVACY AND LIES: Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images. For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed...

Using a ScanSnap to Go Paperless
Anyone familiar with my blog knows that I am a big proponent of storing every document in every file electronically. When I talk about this, one question that many people ask is what kind of scanner to get...

Airport Worker Caught Taking Picture of Scanner Screen Showing Female Worker "Naked"
Hold it -- I distinctly remember being told that under TSA rules this could not happen. It did? Well, at least we can be thankful that the scanners aren't actually capable of storing or sending the images they take of...

Feds: Body-Scanner Images Cannot Be Saved, Except for These 35,000
Previously: "The machines have zero storage capability," and there is "no way to save, transmit, or print the image." August 4: "[A]pproximately 35,314 images . . . have been stored" on just one machine at one federal courthouse in Florida,...

Passengers virtually stripped naked by 3-D airport scanner being tested in Canada
We've seen this coming up through development, but the electronic virtual stripping machine is finally making its way to an airport in Canada, though just for a pilot project. The scanner was unveiled on Thursday...

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Unsafe Work Site
Employee awarded $2.5 million personal injury settlement after suffering burns to his lower body.