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The NYPD's X-Ray Vans
- cryoshon 11y agoFTA: "backscatter technology, previously deployed in European Union airports, was banned in 2011, because of health concerns; an internal presentation from American Science and Engineering, Inc., the company that manufactures the vans, determined that the vans deliver a radiation dose 40 percent larger than delivered by a backscatter airport scanner; bystanders present when the van is in use are exposed to the radiation that the van emits… moreover, petitioner maintains, and it is not disputed by the NYPD, that ‘there may be significant health risks associated with the use of backscatter x-ray devices as these machines use ionizing radiation, a type of radiation long known to mutate DNA and cause cancer." Not only are the fascists surveilling us invasively, they're giving us cancer via a well-understood dose of ionizing radiation. Oh, and the commissioner refuses to think that we should know about any of it.