Committee seeks to vet homeland security technology for 'public acceptance'.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 July 2009
• Published date: 01 July 2009

In May, a cable news network ran a report on Transportation Security Administration body scanners that can peer underneath clothing and show the outlines of a subject's body. For those who follow homeland security technology, this was not news.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

However, the report pushed the idea of public acceptance of security technology to the forefront.

As the U.S. military has discovered in the past, millions of dollars can be spent on developing a weapons system. But the money...