The Link between TSA Body Scanners and Airforce Drone Technology

It is not out of line to consider that the biometric scan data saved by the TSA body scanners can be used to program Air Force drone targeting technology.

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Background Info worth investigating:

- TSA's Body Scanners are manufactured by L3 Communications.

- L3 Communications works heavily with the Air Force Research Laboratory. LINK

- It is a known fact that L3 Communications acquires the scanned images for further R & D.

- The technology is already available for drone target systems to lock onto biometric images.

reply to post by CodeRed3D


Thats a little freaky. Hmm.. and we haven't found Bin Laden?

In todays interview, I distinctly heard Napoliano(sp?) say that images are not saved.

Do you have evidence that they ARE being saved?

Of course it does not matter too much. The only way one could be sure is by analyzing the software in the machines.

Originally posted by CodeRed3D
It is a known fact that L3 Communications acquires the scanned images for further R & D.

That is not a fact, but your opinion

The technology is already available for drone target systems to lock onto biometric images.

Again not a fact, just a silly story

William Bordley, an associate general counsel with the Marshals Service, acknowledged in the letter that "approximately 35,314 images...have been stored on the Brijot Gen2 machine" used in the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse. In addition, Bordley wrote, a Millivision machine was tested in the Washington, D.C. federal courthouse but it was sent back to the manufacturer, which now apparently possesses the image database......

Already a number of machines have been returned from all over Europe and the US.

A 70-page document (PDF) showing the TSA's procurement specifications, classified as "sensitive security information," says that in some modes the scanner must "allow exporting of image data in real time" and provide a mechanism for "high-speed transfer of image data" over the network. (It also says that image filters will "protect the identity, modesty, and privacy of the passenger.")

LINKS:
Feds admit to storing body scanner images.

The TSA has lied about the capabilities of the full body scanners from the start. In certain modes, these scanners have the ability to store images and connect to a network.

Originally posted by dereks
The technology is already available for drone target systems to lock onto biometric images.
Again not a fact, just a silly story

Follow the link in the first report and read the full report. This is food for thought. It was reported on in the Guardian that the Drones were inefficient in targeting and killed in excess of 700 civilians. The "inefficiency" is a little hard to believe when you read the reports about these drone's targeting systems and what technology is available to those that fly them.

Guardian.CO.UK

L3 Communications' involvement with the Air Force is well documented on their website and many of their public reports. www.l-3com.com

Let's be logical here. If I had an invested interest in L3 Communications, I would be using the images from the body scanners to improve the drone targeting systems that were being developed in another department of the SAME company.