Posted on 05/23/2009 7:05:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Some Worry That Seeing Beneath Clothing, Even Though Faces Are Obscured, Violates Privacy
The latest technology for screening passengers at U.S. airports gets a closer look at you than anything that's been used before.
It's called a "whole body imager," and it can indeed see your whole body underneath your clothing, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes.
San Francisco is one of 19 domestic airports where the scanners are deployed. Forty machines so far across the country, with 250 planned for next year, at $170,000 apiece. Passengers get to choose whether to pass through the body imager or a traditional metal detector.
"I was just pretty impressed at how quick it took, said Jared Thomas, an airline passenger. "She said two seconds - it was two seconds."
Two seconds to see whether you have something suspicious on your body, perhaps made of plastic. The worst case scenario is an improvised explosive device. When a passenger goes through, a TSA screener checks out the revealing image in another room. The passenger's face is blurred, but the body is fully exposed.
"Once that evaluation is complete, the scan is deleted, and it's gone forever," said Nico Melendez, a TSA spokesman. "So we can't capture, we can't print, we can't transmit. We don't hold the image at all."
Bullshit.
GUILTY
“NO NO NO — Really, Ms. Thomas, you can go right ahead. Don’t stop to be scanned!”
looks like a liberal
No.
Waaaaait a minute. I thought I read on Drudge a few days ago that this was going to be scrapped. Could be wrong, tho.
She seems to have a tail
I’m afraid to say what it looks like to me. Use your imagination if someone was scared to death, what might happen.
LOL.
I think the media trots out a story on this about every six weeks, every time they get bored.
That’s Geddy Lee!
It’s automatically covertly recorded and stored in a hard drive which then is uploaded to a database.
As a fringe benefit, when warranted, the machine can deliver for the passenger a pamphlet on how to lose weight or cure other body ailments it observes.
Do Islamic women get a pass? If they can’t show their hair how are they going to show under their clothes?
I need some situps before my next flight.
bump for later read
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