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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 16 2017, @02:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-face-are-belong-to-us dept.

"Congress allowed the government to scan faces of foreign nationals to keep track of visa overstays. But now that's set to be extended to Americans worrying some privacy advocates."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:23AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:23AM (#540213)

    Backscatter x-ray machines use x-rays... Millimeter wave scanners use lower frequencies which are less damaging assuming they only go 2 millimetres deep: https://www.propublica.org/special/scanning-the-scanners-a-side-by-side-comparison [propublica.org]

    If it's not x rays and really stopped by the skin then I'm not as worried. The skin is exposed to all sorts of cancer causing crap everyday. Sunlight, toxins, physical trauma. Skin cancer detection and survival rates are better than many internal cancers.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:54AM (#540716)

    NO! SOME skin cancers do. Melanoma, you're golden - it has ~98% survival in the USA! But there are LOTS of skin cancers which are > 80% mortal, too.