EPIC: Documents Show TSA Ignored Radiation Warnings

July 4, 2011
by Marcy Bonebright

TSA.GOV

EPIC claims it has retrieved documents suggesting the Transportation Security Administration ignored radiation warnings about its full-body scanners.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) recently announced that it has obtained documents from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which raise new questions about the safety of the TSA’s full-body scanners. http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backs ... .html#foia

Among other things, the documents reportedly reveal that “(t)he DHS (Department of Homeland Security) has publicly mischaracterized the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), stating that NIST ‘affirmed the safety’ of full body scanners. NIST stated that the Institute did not, in fact, test full body scanners for safety, and that the Institute does not do product testing.â€