Sorry it's lost a lot of quality coming thru my scanner etc. but here is a portion of an image in the June 25 TIME, taken with a device that can see THROUGH things. It's illegal aliens being stowed away in a banana truck. The article was actually about how the courts had sided with a Florence, Oregon man who got arrested for his private production of marijuana plants that were detcted by the heat from their grow lights. The court ruled that federal agents had illegally pryed into his home using infrared technology.
That may seem like good news. Fortunately, if they ruled against "off-the-wall" technology, they would be even more adverse to the newer "through-the-wall" technologies. However, the article goes on to say that in the decade it took for the case to reach the court, more invasive technologies have been developed, that may make it harder to rule on in the future. Some of the new devices are already turning up at airports, border crossings and crime scenes. They can see through clothing and peer into private homes well enough to raise new issues. You probably need to get the article to read more about the images like the one I scanned, from the newer x-ray devices. And there is a radar screen tpe thatcan detect anything moving, like a diaphragm. The developers argue that public safety concerns outweigh privacy issues. Unfortunately, the article concludes that if the technology becomes so commonplace that everybody can own a throught-the-wall imager, then nobody can reasonably expect privacy, and it would be impossible to uphold!
That may seem like good news. Fortunately, if they ruled against "off-the-wall" technology, they would be even more adverse to the newer "through-the-wall" technologies. However, the article goes on to say that in the decade it took for the case to reach the court, more invasive technologies have been developed, that may make it harder to rule on in the future. Some of the new devices are already turning up at airports, border crossings and crime scenes. They can see through clothing and peer into private homes well enough to raise new issues. You probably need to get the article to read more about the images like the one I scanned, from the newer x-ray devices. And there is a radar screen tpe thatcan detect anything moving, like a diaphragm. The developers argue that public safety concerns outweigh privacy issues. Unfortunately, the article concludes that if the technology becomes so commonplace that everybody can own a throught-the-wall imager, then nobody can reasonably expect privacy, and it would be impossible to uphold!
