Quotes: U.S. Buys X-Ray Vans

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“This really trips up the creep factor because it’s one of those things that you sort of intrinsically think the government shouldn’t be doing.”

– FREDERICK LANE, Vermont-based privacy expert, on the federal government purchasing vans equipped with “backscatter” X-rays to scan vehicles at major sporting events or to scan for bombs at random (via Christian Science Monitor)

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