DHS Working to Push Covert Naked Body Scanners Everywhere

The Fourth Amendment is under attack thanks to technology. It has been discovered the naked body scanners used in airports are being developed and tested to scan people without their knowledge while they are simply walking down sidewalks in cities. This from 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’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 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.

The department dropped the projects in a “very early” phase after testing showed flaws, Homeland Security spokesman Bobby Whithorne says.

Oh, but don't you feel safer knowing the government is watching your every move and exposing you to radiation every time you turn around--even without your knowledge.