The naked truth

I dunno why I'm bothering to mention this. I mean... did anyone really believe those pro forma denials that TSA wouldn't keep those risque body scanner shots? After all, if you take away PTV (PeepingTomVision ^TM), the only real perk those poor agents will have is pushing around tired travelers in airports.

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.”

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.

(HT: Instapundit, who notes: "Whenever the government collects information, it lies about what it will do with it. This is a near-universal law.")

That's why the only information you should give to the Census is the limited data points listed in the Constitution...