News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Tar... by toufka on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:30PM (#10422292)
Backscatter deposits that radiation disproportionately in areas of the body that are prone to cancer - skin, testes, breast tissue, etc.

So those areas that are particularly sensitive take a disproportional hit with this technology.

This [1] is a letter from a group of prominent scientists and oncologists at UCSF who wrote a letter to the White House about the uncertainties of the technology when it was used by the TSA at airports.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/os...

There are no comments on this comment yet.