This is so outrageous; seems like there are more and more stories about people being embarrassed and humiliated when their PRIVATE HEALTH ISSUES are being revealed by:
1. questionable equipment (do they save scans? do they emit dangerous amounts of radiation, aren’t there machines that do not expose so much nakedness?)
2. insensitive TSA staff—who is checking the background of the checkers???
3. gestapo-like policies—no sytematic policy for evaluating why someone is forced to have a pat down
I imagine there are many men and women with incontinence issues and women in their monthly cycles that are being publicly embarrassed or dreading flying in the next week. Like I said, this is outrageous, but also sad and wrong.
They say the pictures are detailed but not photogenic.
Could there be another motive for their use of these scanners?
IS or CAN the equipment be enhanced to collect fingerprints, thereby establishing a NATIONAL FINGERPRINT BASE where we can all be tracked by reader-monitors placed everywhere, just as we are now unable to go anywhere without camera watching us?
This is what they do when they collect DNA from prisoners.
If they could put a man on the moon 41 years ago, why do we doubt that they could do this?
They scan our eyes for identity purposes. But cameras might have difficulty matching their database to people wearing sunglasses or deceptive contact lenses.
At least two types of machines were trialed. One used millimeter wave radio (weak RF), and one radiation. One had high reliability, one did not. One had no false positives, one had many errors. One was reliable, one was not. One was produced y a reputable company, one was backed by a former HLS chief who had an investment interest. Guess which one was picked....?
The most simple and basic common sense would have had these goons at TSA leaving the guy alone on they figured out he had medical equipment attached to his body. That they harmed that innocent man is just plain evil. I hope he sues.