Shoes & X-ray screening

TSA's revealing X-ray screening raises privacy concerns
Usa Today By Thomas Frank

The federal government plans this month to launch the nation's first airport screening system that takes potentially revealing X-ray photos of travelers in an effort to find bombs and other weapons.

Transportation Security Administration screeners at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport will test a "backscatter" machine that could vastly improve weapons detection but has been labeled a "virtual strip search" by the American Civil Liberties Union. Backscatter can show clear images of nude bodies.

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Nike+iPod Sport Kit raises privacy concerns
Phsysorg.com

"It is easy for someone to use the Nike+iPod as a tracking device," says Scott Saponas, a doctoral student in computer science and lead author of a technical report posted online at www.cs.washington.edu/research/systems/privacy.html on Nov. 30. "It's an example of how new gadgetry can erode our personal privacy." The researchers suggest that people who own a Nike+iPod Sport Kit turn it off when they're not exercising so that it stops emitting signals.