August 4, 2010 3:17PM 

# Strip-Search Images Stored 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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The Transportation Security Administration will be sure to point out that it was not them—it was the U.S. Marshals Service—that kept “tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse,” [according to Declan McCullagh](http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html) of C|Net news.

The TSA has taken pains to make sure that their use of strip-search machines does not produce compromising images of the traveling public, but [rules are made to be broken](https://www.cato.org/2010/03/26/stunner-strip-search-machine-used-to-ogle/). How do you protect privacy in the use of a technology that is fundamentally designed to invade privacy?

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[Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy) 

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