{"id":20926,"date":"2011-03-05T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptogon.com\/?p=20926"},"modified":"2011-03-05T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:10:37","slug":"homeland-security-looked-into-covert-body-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=20926","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Looked Into Covert Body Scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2011-03-04-bodyscans04_ST_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Homeland Security Department paid contractors millions of dollars to develop and study surveillance systems that could covertly track pedestrians and check under people&#8217;s clothing with airport-style body scanners as they enter train stations, bus depots or major events, newly released documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Two contracts the department signed in 2005 and 2006 were part of its effort to acquire technology to find suicide bombers in a crowd of moving people, according to documents given to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy-rights group that is suing Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>The department dropped the projects in a &#8220;very early&#8221; phase after testing showed flaws, Homeland Security spokesman Bobby Whithorne says.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: USA Today: The Homeland Security Department paid contractors millions of dollars to develop and study surveillance systems that could covertly track pedestrians and check under people&#8217;s clothing with airport-style body scanners as they enter train stations, bus depots or major events, newly released documents show. Two contracts the department signed in 2005 and 2006 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}