News: New Kind of Body Scanner Researched

From CNN: Homeland Security in the US is funding research for a new kind of body scanner. Named 'Future Attribute Screening Technology', or FAST, instead of directly detecting criminal activity the scanners which would measure 'natural signals from the body' - things like heart rate, breathing, body temperature and fidgeting - to determine whether the subject was suspiciously nervous, say. The project has come in for some criticism:

Civil liberties groups maintain this screening technology is an invasion of privacy.

"Nobody has the right to look at my intimate bodily functions, my breathing, my perspiration rate, my heart rate, from afar," said Joe Stanley of the ACLU.