The Art of Access

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 Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly-perhaps illegally-saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens.

We understand that it will be controversial to release these photographs. But identifying features have been eliminated. And fortunately for those who walked through the scanner in Florida last year, this mismanaged machine used the less embarrassing imaging technique.

The interesting part? The “leak” the story references was no leak — it was an FOI request!

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Filed under: 2. Doc state of mind | Tagged: Freedom of Information Act, Millimeter wave scanner, Transportation Security Administration, United States Marshals Service |