SECURITY scanners that can see through passengers' clothing and reveal details such as their sex organs, colostomy bags and breast size, are being installed in 10 US airports.
A random selection of travellers getting ready to board airplanes in Washington, New York's Kennedy, Los Angeles and other key hubs will be shut in the glass booths while a three-dimensional image is made of their body beneath their clothes.
The booths close around the passenger and emit "millimetre waves" that go through cloth to identify metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives, according to the Transport Safety Authority.
While it allows the security screeners - looking at the images in a separate room - to clearly see the passenger's sexual organs as well as other details of their bodies, the passenger's face is blurred, TSA said.
The scan only takes seconds and is to replace the physical pat-downs of people that is currently widespread in airports.
TSA began introducing the body scanners in airports in April, first in the Phoenix, Arizona terminal.
The installation is picking up this month, with machines in place or planned for airports in Washington (Reagan National and Baltimore-Washington International), Dallas, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Miami and Detroit.
The new machines have provoked worries among passengers and rights activists.
"People have no idea how graphic the images are," Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said.
The ACLU said passengers expecting privacy underneath their clothing "should not be required to display highly personal details of their bodies such as evidence of mastectomies, colostomy appliances, penile implants, catheter tubes and the size of their breasts or genitals as a pre-requisite to boarding a plane".
Besides masking their faces, the TSA says on its website, the images made "will not be printed stored or transmitted".
"Once the transportation security officer has viewed the image and resolved anomalies, the image is erased from the screen permanently. The officer is unable to print, export, store or transmit the image."
Lara Uselding, a TSA spokeswoman, said passengers were not obliged to accept the new machines.
"The passengers can choose between the body imaging and the pat-down," she said.
TSA foresees 30 of the machines installed across the country by the end of 2008. In Europe, Amsterdam's Schipol airport is already using the scanners.
Quote: from ss454 at 8:53 pm on June 15, 2008 Quote: from baileysababy6 at 11:52 pm on June 15, 2008 that's a violation of human rights. they can't just look at your body like that. Pretty sure they can it'll be porn. and doing it to children will be child pornography. and someone, like stated already, will ind a way to copy the images. if you have to look at my boobs just to "help the terrorism problem", then screw you. and as for the doctor thing stated, i don't even go to the gyn cuz it's gross. no one can look at your body if you don't want them to, and soon, you won't even have the option of a pat-down or the image; they'll just do the image. america is fucked.
Quote: from baileysababy6 at 11:52 pm on June 15, 2008 that's a violation of human rights. they can't just look at your body like that. Pretty sure they can
that's a violation of human rights. they can't just look at your body like that.
Pretty sure they can
it'll be porn. and doing it to children will be child pornography. and someone, like stated already, will ind a way to copy the images. if you have to look at my boobs just to "help the terrorism problem", then screw you. and as for the doctor thing stated, i don't even go to the gyn cuz it's gross. no one can look at your body if you don't want them to, and soon, you won't even have the option of a pat-down or the image; they'll just do the image. america is fucked.
you don't have to ride in planes.
Its not porn you ass-hat. It is a 3d image used to check for anything illegal on your person.
The images cannot be stored, and anyone caught tampering with it will have to face charges on the federal level. An image is far less intrusive than a pat down, and ten times as efficient regarding security.
I, for one, welcome the time when there are all inclusive scans. As long as the punishment for abusing the position is harsh, I'm all for it.
some how a person will find away to get copies of the scan and they will be on the internet. anyways isnt doing that to a minor considered child porn?
It'll be for the security of our nation, making sure we aren't once again attacked by Terrorists. Our nation will allow people to see our children's genitals in full glory so we do not fall to the hands of a terror group!
But really...nobody will really be seeing it, they can only fap so much in a day and will be tired of it eventually. Your doctor...they can see your private areas. Do you think of them as some type of child rapist?
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