Remember Superman's X-ray vision? Well some really smart and geeky company developed a device to allow the TSA screeners not to have to actually touch you to screen you for ... whatever. It uses some type of X-Ray scatter technology that lets them see under you clothes, but not like a "real" X-Ray. Okay. Now, we all know that the one thing that X-Rays do is ummmm, zap your cells and cause damage right? It's why folks who work around them wear those little badges, that measure exposure. So by implication, there must be some danger, right. Well trust our boys in the administration to cover for the vendors of such things...the HomeLand Security Department wants to exempt vendors who make machinery/devices that could hurt you and me from any culpability. Why am I not shocked?

The Homeland Security Department today proposed regulations to shield technology vendors from liability for domestic defense products that cause unintended damage, injury or death.

The regulations would implement the Support Antiterrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002. That law, a subtitle of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, aims to spur development of antiterrorism technologies by protecting vendors.

Under the SAFETY law and regulation, cases against vendors of technologies chosen by the department for antiterrorism deployment would be heard in federal rather than state courts.
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The protection would also expand the so-called government contractor defense. Otherwise, “many companies may not invest in potential lifesaving technologies to protect Americans,” the department said in an announcement.

The DHS secretary would have broad discretion to decide whether to shield an antiterrorism technology from liability.