The Transportation Security Administration is installing security scanners that can see through your clothing with millimeter wave whole body imaging in 10 U.S. airports (they forsee installation in 30 airports by the end of 2008). Random passengers (that means you big-boobed blonde) will be shut in a glass booth while a three-dimensional image is made of your body beneath your clothes. And, yes, the scanners will reveal your sexual organs and all sorts of other details about your body, but don't fret because your face is blurred! USA Today quotes James Schear, the TSA security director at Baltimore-Washington International Airport as saying that with the detailed pictures "(y)ou can actually see the sweat on someone's back."
This guy is such a comfort!
Reportedly, you are allowed to choose between the "harmless" millimeter wave scan and the traditional pat down.
While the TSA says, basically, eh, it's no big deal, the ACLU (probably not surprisingly) says we'd all be shocked if we saw what they saw.
The Dallas Morning News has an image from one of these types of scans on their website. Take a look.
So, will you be a scanner or a patter?
-- Clear Plastic Bag
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infuriating and double infuriating bc of course i will be a scanner - no one wants to be felt up - and we'll just get one more right - the right to not be naked in public - taken away.
I'm late to this discussion, but I say pat away. I hate having my picture taken.
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