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".... courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places
where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology,
capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on
U.S. streets. "
".... courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places
where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology,
capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on
U.S. streets. "
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Well . . Isn't this a perfect reason for the right to bear arms?
"Without a warrant, the government doesn't have a right to peer beneath your clothes without probable cause. If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make."
But of course, that's just the argument the government will make. Just as it has successfully defended numerous once-unimaginable invasions of privacy that are now a part of American life.
As the citizens of the nightmare totalitarian world of George Orwell's novel 1984 were continually told by their government: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
AS&E’s Reiss counters privacy critics by pointing out that the ZBV scans don’t capture nearly as much detail of human bodies as their airport counterparts. The company’s marketing materials say that its “primary purpose is to image vehicles and their contents,” and that “the system cannot be used to identify an individual, or the race, sex or age of the person.”
And I thought.....yet!
Where does it end? How much will we give up in the name of safety before we say, "ENOUGH!"
Well, as this technology becomes cheaper, it will be deployed by more and more private organizations and even individuals.
Who knows... it might become standard for people to be silently scanned for weapons or contraband whenever they enter a wide variety of buildings, and if such things are detected, biometric scanners could then "tag" the person's identity and information and upload it automatically to a national or even a global database.
It's probably only a matter of time.
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