“I
think this is really a slippery slope,” said Jill Lipoti,
who was the director of New Jersey’s radiation protection program. The device
was already deployed in prisons; what was next, she and others asked —
courthouses, schools, airports? “I am concerned … with expanding this type of
product for the traveling public,” said another panelist, Stanley Savic, the vice president for safety at a large electronics
company. “I think that would take this thing to an entirely different level of
public health risk.”