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Debunk This - Intelligent Life Is On Planet Mars? (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

All discoveries and findings by Phillip Roberts - If you don't believe there is... more

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Cannibalism

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Airbag For Your Head

You wear this air bag round the back of your neck and on impact it expands. How is... more

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Nerdy Cat

Even cats can be geeks.

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Vanessa Hudgens at world premiere âLegend of the Guardiansâ - Los Angeles Entertainment Insider | Examiner.com

Stars shone brightly on the red carpet at the "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls... more

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"Manufactured Totems" - series of photographs that echoes the incessant expansion of the urban area

French photographer Alain Delorme became fascinated with the sculptural quality of... more

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Exclusive Star Wars Figure

Uncle Owen? Aunt Beru?

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Zooming in on Mars: New high-resolution images reveal Red Planet's stunning terrain

It has long been a planet of wonder, leaving early astronomers to speculate about... more

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Revealed: The startling images of insect eggs under a powerful microscope

They look like works of art or photos documenting the discovery of some strange new... more

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20 Works of Art Missing or Destroyed

This list is just a small sample of those works of art that can be seen only in photos... more

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Michael Bay Remakes Classic Movies

A great image sweep of films re imagined by Michael Bay (Jerry Bruckheimer is now just... more

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10 Popular Posters

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Fed admits storing chekpoint 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. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."

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.

This follows an earlier disclosure (PDF) by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for "testing, training, and evaluation purposes." The agency says, however, that those capabilities are not normally activated when the devices are installed at airports.

Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual strip search. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing fuzzier images, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.

This privacy debate, which has been simmering since the days of the Bush administration, came to a boil two weeks ago when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that scanners would soon appear at virtually every major airport. The updated list includes airports in New York City, Dallas, Washington, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, and Philadelphia.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to grant an immediate injunction pulling the plug on TSA's body scanning program. In a separate lawsuit, EPIC obtained a letter (PDF) from the Marshals Service, part of the Justice Department, and released it on Tuesday afternoon.

These "devices are designed and deployed in a way that allows the images to be routinely stored and recorded, which is exactly what the Marshals Service is doing," EPIC executive director Marc Rotenberg told CNET. "We think it's significant."

William Bordley, an associate general counsel with the Marshals Service, acknowledged in the letter that "approximately 35,314 images...have been stored on the Brijot Gen2 machine" used in the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse. In addition, Bordley wrote, a Millivision machine was tested in the Washington, D.C. federal courthouse but it was sent back to the manufacturer, which now apparently possesses the image database.

The Gen 2 machine, manufactured by Brijot of Lake Mary, Fla., uses a millimeter wave radiometer and accompanying video camera to store up to 40,000 images and records. Brijot boasts that it can even be operated remotely: "The Gen 2 detection engine capability eliminates the need for constant user observation and local operation for effective monitoring. Using our APIs, instantly connect to your units from a remote location via the Brijot Client interface."

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