General News November, 16th 2010 by admin

Website Publishes 100 Pictures Of Federal Security Body Scans

“The website Gizmodo has published 100 pictures of body scans taken at an Orlando Federal Courthouse. The scans are not from the ‘naked scan’ machines that the Department of Homeland Security announced were going into 28 airports in the country, earlier this year. Instead, they are much more pixelated and less embarrassing.”

(Source: Website Publishes 100 Pictures Of Federal Security Body Scans : The Two-Way : NPR)

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Nikki says

Those are photo’s I really don’t want to see! Just the term ‘body scan’ makes me feel queesy. Now body scans in the Cowboys locker room is a different matter!

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