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Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Marshals Service is confirming that it has stored more than 35,000 “whole body” images of people who had entered a U.S. courthouse in Orlando, Florida.

The images captured by millimeter wave technology are more ghost-like and far less detailed than those produced by “backscatter” machines commonly used by the Transportation Security Administration at airports nationwide.

But the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy rights group that obtained the Marshals Service photos, said the disclosure shows that body imaging machines can store intrusive images of people’s bodies and that the federal government will store images in the absence of strong judicial or legislative restraints Read full story