Surprise! Feds stored thousands of checkpoint body scan images after all – Boing Boing

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Surprise! Feds stored thousands of checkpoint body scan images after all

US agencies have long defended the use of body scanning devices at airports with the promise that all images will be discarded as soon as security staff have viewed them. Last summer, the TSA claim…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/04/surprise-feds-stored.html

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. 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.