FOI At Work: Gizmodo’s TSA Scan Images

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Charles N. Davis

Image via Wikipedia Amidst the furor surrounding the TSA’s controversial new full-body imaging technology, Gizmodo filed an FOI request for the images saved (perhaps illegally) by the U.S. Marshals.. Here is the story. Its intro: A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging [...]

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Scanners yield FOI fruit

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Charles N. Davis

Image via Wikipedia It’s official: a full-body security scanner can theoretically store your blurry nude picture. After a Freedom of Information Act request from the advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center, the U.S. Marshals Service released 100 of 35,314 stored images taken by a scanner at an Orlando, Florida, courthouse. Though airport security scanners use [...]

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