Day archives: August 21st, 2010

FOIA Lawsuit Raises Questions for Senator About Retention of Body Scanner Images

Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, along with four other Senators, have sent a letter to the head of the US Marshal Service to ask why the federal agency stored more than 35,000 images …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Legal Research, Privacy