Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners
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Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners
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#2Original author here... thanks for posting! :) I filed the first lawsuit against the TSA's nude body scanners when they became primary screening in 2010, and you may also remember me from my "How to Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners" video. Today I filed suit against New York City for attempting to introduce street body scanners that can look under your clothes from afar. It is unfortunate that it seems that government at all levels is always in need of a fresh reminder that the citizens for whom it exists demand privacy, and that each technological advance is not a new tool to violate our privacy. However, as often as proves to be necessary, we will give them that reminder.
Re: Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners
#3Original author here... thanks for posting! :) I filed the first lawsuit against the TSA's nude body scanners when they became primary screening in 2010, and you may also remember me from my "How to Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners" video. Today I filed suit against New York City for attempting to introduce street body scanners that can look under your clothes from afar. It is unfortunate that it seems tha…
not to mention the health concerns of going around randomly Xray-ing people... "A cancer for you.. and a cancer for you.. "
Re: Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners
#4Original author here... thanks for posting! :) I filed the first lawsuit against the TSA's nude body scanners when they became primary screening in 2010, and you may also remember me from my "How to Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners" video. Today I filed suit against New York City for attempting to introduce street body scanners that can look under your clothes from afar. It is unfortunate that it seems tha…
not to mention the health concerns of going around randomly Xray-ing people... "A cancer for you.. and a cancer for you.. "
These devices, as best I can tell, actually don't come with a radiation risk. They're passive scanners, meaning they don't emit their own radiation.
TSA scanners on the other hand... ;)
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#5Thank you for doing this!
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#6Are there practical materials to make hoodies and/or jeans out of that are opaque to these devices?
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#7Playing Devil's Advocate here: how is this comparable to "nude" body scanners? From the demo images, it seems to produce an abstract outline except for the shapes that, I'm assuming, are too dense to be organic. In concept, how is this different than being forced to walk through a metal detector? Both this visual body scanner and the metal detector only provide vague indications of what you have hidden under your clothes.
From a pragmatic point of view...maybe I'm misunderstanding the technology, but it seems prone to a wide range of false positives...to the point that using the scans to justify apprehending someone is not much better than stop-and-frisking because a person looks "suspicious"
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#8Are there practical materials to make hoodies and/or jeans out of that are opaque to these devices?
If these are terahertz-band scanners, I believe most metals will block the waves.
Re: Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners
#9Playing Devil's Advocate here: how is this comparable to "nude" body scanners? From the demo images, it seems to produce an abstract outline except for the shapes that, I'm assuming, are too dense to be organic. In concept, how is this different than being forced to walk through a metal detector? Both this visual body scanner and the metal detector only provide vague indications of what you have hidden under your clo…
> In concept, how is this different than being forced to walk through a metal detector?
Well, you generally have a choice (kinda) to walk through a metal detector. People should be protect from random searches while walking around the streets. At one time there were very specific cases where you had to submit to a search -- one being hot pursuit.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
not to mention the health concerns of going around randomly Xray-ing people... "A cancer for you.. and a cancer for you.. "
These devices, as best I can tell, actually don't come with a radiation risk. They're passive scanners, meaning they don't emit their own radiation. TSA scanners on the other hand... ;)
Personally I see the potential for false positives as rendering them mostly useless in a crowd setting.