Body scanners that can “see” underneath clothing will be installed in 10 of the country’s biggest airports within the next few weeks. Airline passengers in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. can look forward to scenes like the kind depicted in this photo here. How they’ll be used:
The scanners bounce harmless “millimeter waves” off passengers who are selected to stand inside a portal with arms raised after clearing the metal detector. A TSA screener in a nearby room views the black-and-white image and looks for objects on a screen that are shaded differently from the body. Finding a suspicious object, a screener radios a colleague at the checkpoint to search the passenger.
Reminds you a little of City 17, right?
Eh, what are you gonna do? I know I feel 100 percent safer with the TSA on my side. You know, the same organization that couldn’t tell the difference between a bomb and a MacBook Air?
via Drudge Report
I don’t think I believe that Macbook Air story. Sounds like somebody just making it up for attention. I go through security all the time with all kinds of devices and have never had anyone bat an eye at things most people have never seen before. If it isn’t loaded with C4, a macbook Air is not going to get stopped in security any more than any other laptop.
As for this new tech, I think it’s incredibly intrusive. But we’ve given up any semblance of right of privacy at airports, and the slippery slope has now left us in a puddle of muck at the bottom.
I have nothing to hide, but I dont like the thought of stramgers checking my privates out, and who’s to say they will really delete them or not?
This is such a violation of privacy!!!!!!!!