Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff

UPDATE: Scannergate: Facts Contradict Heathrow Claim That Naked Images Can’t Be Printed
Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.

“It is very important to stress that the images which are captured by body scanners are immediately deleted after the passenger has gone through the body scanner,” Adonis told the London Evening Standard.

Adonis was forced to address privacy concerns following reports that the images produced by the scanners broke child pornography laws in the UK. When the scanners were first introduced, it was also speculated that images of famous people would be ripe for abuse as the pictures produced by the devices make genitals “eerily visible” according to journalists who have investigated trials of the technology.

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VIDEO: Google to offer 'ultra high-speed' broadband in US

Google is spreading its wings in yet another direction - this time as a network provider, offering super-fast broadband to thousands of US homes.

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Ya-WHO?

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--A senior Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) executive said Wednesday that the Web giant hasn't exited the Internet search market, despite the company's decision to strike a search pact last year with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).

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iPhone 4G Expected To Be AT&T Exclusive

According to some excessively well paid bloggers (read: analysts) at Barclays Capital, Apple will probably choose to extend the iPhone exclusivity agreement with AT&T for this coming fourth generation of the popular handset.

The reasoning behind this is that the data plan for the iPad will be through AT&T, which is taken to mean that Apple is continuing its relationship with AT&T. From a behavioral standpoint, this makes sense: when Steve Jobs is done with you, he really gets done.

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I Spy...a Market for Kids

"A kid can program the Trakr to snap a picture of his sister talking on the phone when she is supposed to be doing homework, then drive the car to his parents and rat her out with a pre-recorded message," says Daniel Grossman, chief executive of the car's maker, Wild Planet Entertainment Inc. In focus groups, kids came up with their own plans for the car. "Drive it under my sister's bed and yell boo when she walks in the room," one boy suggested.

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Warner retreats from free music streaming

Companies like Spotify, We7 and Last.fm give free, legal and instant access to millions of songs, funded by adverts.
Warner, one of the four major labels, whose artists include REM and Michael Buble, said such services were "clearly not positive for the industry".

That raises questions over the future of free streaming, which is popular with fans but not lucrative for labels.
Spotify has seven million users in six European countries and is in negotiations to launch in the US.
Ninety-five per cent of those fans use its free service, hearing adverts between songs, while 250,000 pay a monthly fee to get it on a mobile and with no ads.

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Internet addiction not included in proposed changes to APA diagnostic manual

Binge eating and gambling are in, but sex addition, obesity and Internet addiction are out.

And there are many other proposed changes to the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual, which is widely used around the world by doctors and insurers to treat mental illness.

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FCC Gets Google to Slash Nexus One Return Fee

User outrage may have been key in getting Google to cut the fee.

Google's $350 "Equipment Recovery Fee" on its Nexus One smartphone has pretty much received a universally poor reception among consumers. Complaints have flooded user forums, and apparently some have taken it as far as the Federal Communications Commission. Good news: the FCC's intervention has seemed to have forced the company's hand.

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India puts on hold first GM food crop on safety grounds

The GM vegetable has undergone field trials since 2008 and received approval from government scientists in 2009.
But there has been a heated public row over the cultivation of the GM crop.

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