EPIC Demands Documents from DHS about Mobile Body Scanners, Use of Devices at Trains Stations and Stadiums

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TSA Controversy

EPIC Demands Documents from DHS about Mobile Body Scanners, Use of Devices at Trains Stations and Stadiums

By Alton Parrish (Editor)
Thursday, November 25, 2010 9:48

EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act
request to the
Department of Homeland Security, demanding that the agency turn over
documents concerning the use of body scanner technology by law
enforcement agencies in surface transit and street-roaming vans. EPIC
cited previous DHS
www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_st_railpilot.pdf">
testing of body scanners on New Jersey's PATH trains and the
development of street-roaming
backscatter vans. EPIC has also filed a
lawsuit to suspend
body scanner program. EPIC has called the devices "invasive,
ineffective, and unlawful." For more information, see:
EPIC: Whole Body
Imaging and

EPIC: EPIC v. DHS.


Majority of Americans Now Oppose Body Scanners and TSA Pat
Downs

A new
poll
by Zogby International finds that 61% of Americans polled between Nov. 19
and Nov. 22 oppose the use of full body scans and TSA pat downs. Of
those polled, 52% believe the enhanced security measures will not prevent
terrorist activity, almost half (48%) say it is a violation of privacy
rights, 33% say they should not have to go through enhanced security
methods to get on an airplane, and 32% believe the full body scans and
TSA pat downs to be sexual harassment. The Zogby Poll is the most recent
survey of American opinion on the new airport screening procedures.
Combined with earlier polls by

USA Today and the

Washington Post-ABC News, the Zogby Poll reflects declining support
for the TSA program.


EPIC Releases Analysis on TSA Body Scanner Program - "Deployment and
contracting for body scanners should be suspended"

EPIC is making available to the public today

the report EPIC prepared in January 2010, following the release of
documents from the DHS in an open government lawsuit. The analysis, based
on the internal records obtained from the agency, reveals that the
"device specifications, set out by the TSA, include the ability to
store, record, and transfer images, contrary to the representations made
by the TSA...include hard disk storage, USB integration, and Ethernet
connectivity that raise significant privacy and security
concerns...include "super user" ("Level Z") status
that allows the TSA itself to disable filters and to export raw
images..." The EPIC memo states "Based on the materials
received to date, EPIC concludes that further deployment and contracting
for body scanners should be suspended until the privacy and security
problems identified are adequately resolved." The documents were
obtained in
EPIC v.
DHS (FOIA) EPIC has since filed papers in federal court to suspend
the program. See

EPIC v. DHS (body scanners).





Credit: EPIC


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