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Originally Posted by snagglepuss
dvaut,
the point is all of these machines they claim do not save/store images. this has been proven over and over again to not be the case and you are being outright lied to.
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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe
Well, the government required the manufacturer to add a feature allowing images to be saved but the TSA says they will never use that feature.
Yeah. From the TSA back in August:
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/ba...eply_House.pdf
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The AIT program meets this commitment through TSA's screening protocol that ensures complete anonymity for passengers undergoing AIT scans. TSA has not deviated from these operational protocols, which were first published in a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) in January 2008 before any devices in the AIT pilot went' into operation. That PIA, and every PIA update since, states, "[w]hile the equipment has the capability of collecting and storing an image, the image storage functions will be disabled by the manufacturer before the devices are placed in an airport and will not have the capability to be activated by operators."
TSA <> US Marshalls
I don't think there's any evidence that TSA has stored the images. Maybe that have, who knows? ... but it's two different branches of the federal government. What gizmodo is highlighting is a courthouse security scanner -- operated by the US Marshall -- scanning images and saving them. What everyone is up in arms about are the TSA procedures; TSA claims that the equipment has the capability to save and transmit, but they don't use it.
snagglepuss -- if you don't like this policy, it's important to make your claims correct and have your details straight. I don't like the policy, and I'd prefer my opposition not be sullied with "Al Qaeda didn't have anything to do with 9/11" and a crude claim about how "all these machines can't save images, but it's been proven that they do over and over, we're being lied to".