Canada Orders "Strip Search" Body Scanners

Canada has fast-tracked an order of 44 body scanners for airports in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, and Montreal. However, Canada is not buying any of the image blurring software, so these would indeed be virtual strip-search machines. Government officials keep parroting the line that, because someone's viewing the images in another room, it's somehow not a violation of privacy.

In other words, we're getting strip-searched because intelligence agencies can't figure out how to communicate with each other properly. No, it doesn't make sense to me, either.

Junior Transport Rob Merrifield managed to betray a lack of knowledge of both privacy and law:

Just because the person using an x-ray to view your junk isn't in the same room, doesn't mean that your privacy is being violated. Indeed, the total lack of accountability makes it worse. Also, no intelligent person believes that these images aren't being stored. After all, they'd need to be kept for a trial.