-- Posted by mcdouga at 8:10 pm on June 15, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C23599%2C23845865-23109%2C00.html 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. -- Posted by NEGATIVE0 at 8:11 pm on June 15, 2008 pat down, plz -- Posted by ButtSechs69 at 8:11 pm on June 15, 2008 Wow, my dream has finally come true. -- Posted by ss454 at 8:11 pm on June 15, 2008 COOL NOW THEY CAN SEE MY DICK? JUST WHAT I WANTED ALL ALONG -- Posted by omfg frahd chikn at 8:11 pm on June 15, 2008 Not Dallas! FUCK. I don't want people to see my organs. LOL. -- Posted by Crazy snake at 8:11 pm on June 15, 2008 Fuck that!!! They're taking airport security way too far -- Posted by sisof2cnc at 8:11 pm on June 15, 2008 I DONT DOUBT IT! THE US GOVERNMENT IS A SCAM! THATS ISNT RIGHT! -- Posted by panicxparadox at 8:11 pm on June 15, 2008 Wow. That is really screwed up. -- Posted by Praise the Lard at 8:12 pm on June 15, 2008 i for one welcome our new x-ray vision overlords -- Posted by Total Destruction at 8:14 pm on June 15, 2008 This is one of the signs that America is becoming the 4th Reich and will fall to its own hands.. Damn You Bush Family..DAMN YOU!!!! -- Posted by alastrxxna at 8:14 pm on June 15, 2008 I heard about that, it sounds really dumb. I sez helllll no!!! pat down, seriously. -- Posted by Crazy snake at 8:15 pm on June 15, 2008 Quote: from Praise the Lard at 4:12 am on June 16, 2008 i for one welcome our new x-ray vision overlords lol -- Posted by iconoclast at 8:15 pm on June 15, 2008 Quote: from Praise the Lard at 11:12 pm on June 15, 2008 i for one welcome our new x-ray vision overlords its making me get an epic hard on which they will worship once i pass the security screening -- Posted by froufroufrou at 8:16 pm on June 15, 2008 i'd rather have some security screener see my dick by x-ray then have some 300 pund dude pat me down.  lets be rational -- Posted by Reefer at 8:19 pm on June 15, 2008 Pat down, please. -- Posted by PAOlivia at 8:21 pm on June 15, 2008 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? -- Posted by ss454 at 8:27 pm on June 15, 2008 God damn it, I want one in Pittsburgh! -- Posted by ss454 at 8:30 pm on June 15, 2008 Quote: from PAOlivia at 11:21 pm on June 15, 2008 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? -- Posted by PhoenixFire613 at 8:40 pm on June 15, 2008 What the fuck? PLEASE tell me this is a joke!! -- Posted by baileysababy6 at 8:52 pm on June 15, 2008 that's a violation of human rights. they can't just look at your body like that. -- Posted by 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 -- Posted by baileysababy6 at 9:09 pm on June 15, 2008 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. -- Posted by Event Horizon at 10:27 pm on June 15, 2008 Quote: from baileysababy6 at 9:09 pm on June 15, 2008 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. 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. -- Posted by allsmiles at 5:28 am on June 16, 2008 These are already used in the UK... -- Posted by iinsurgent at 2:51 am on June 19, 2008 Quote: from baileysababy6 at 9:09 pm on June 15, 2008 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. you don't have to ride in planes. -- Posted by whensnailsgrr at 12:50 pm on June 19, 2008 I'll bet sometime in the future, these images will be found and they aren't actually destroying them. -- Posted by GoloSLB at 2:12 pm on June 19, 2008 someones horny... -- Posted by CyberDr4gon at 9:44 pm on June 21, 2008 People miss the fact that they have a choice. If your late scan, if not, pat. -- Posted by curtains at 11:18 pm on June 21, 2008 since 9/11 the airline security has gotten way out of control.America is becoming russia & i blame that puke bush & his admin.Next thing you know they will be doing rectum checks.I hate the airline B.S.9/11 happened nearly 7 yrs ago & we are all still paying for it one way or the other. -- Posted by Ryan Potter at 8:27 pm on June 24, 2008 It's pretty creepy, but at least the people who are monitoring it are in another room...