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Originally posted by http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-15-airport-xray-bottomstrip_x.htm
Air travelers stripped bare with X-ray machine

By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY

The agency in charge of the nation's air security expects later this year to begin using a controversial X-ray machine that will show airport screeners a clear picture of what's under passengers' clothes — whether weapons or just bare skin.

[Image: xrays-inside.jpg] The new system makes it easy to see possibly dangerous devices. 
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Screeners plan to test the "backscatter" machines at several U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says. The refrigerator-sized machines are considered a breakthrough in scanning technology but have been labeled "a virtual strip search" by the American Civil Liberties Union. (Related story: Airports test 'futureworld' devices)

Security workers using the machines can see through clothes and peer at whatever may be hidden in undergarments, shirts or pants. The images also paint a revealing picture of a person's nude body.

The devices can potentially be used to screen hundreds of millions of air travelers each year, although TSA says more study is needed to determine how the devices may be used at U.S. airports. The agency declined to say when and where it expects to test the machines.

Backscatter technology has been waiting on the sidelines for nearly four years but seems poised now to move to the forefront of aviation security. The machines are already used by U.S. Customs agents at 12 airports to screen passengers suspected of carrying drugs. They're also getting a test run at a terminal in London Heathrow Airport, the first major airport to use them.

The ACLU says the scanners invade personal privacy. "This leads directly to a surveillance society," says Barry Steinhardt, who runs the group's technology program.

But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate subcommittee last month that he wants to employ the technology and doesn't want an "endless debate" over privacy issues.

Security consultant Douglas Laird says the machines are essential to spot explosives, which aren't detected by metal detectors.

The $100,000 machines bounce low-radiation X-rays off a person's skin to produce photo-like computer images of metal, plastic and organic materials hidden under clothes, says American Science and Engineering. The TSA is testing its BodySearch machine.

In my opinion, it is simply watching pornographic pictures during work hours for the screeners, the travellers unwillingly making pornographic pictures, and child pornography for minors travelling. MAJOR privacy issue here peoples.

This post was edited on 08-22-2006 at 03:14 PM by Nagamasa.
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BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Nagamasa on 08-22-2006 at 05:18 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by NiteMare on 08-22-2006 at 05:25 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by WDZ on 08-22-2006 at 05:36 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by Nagamasa on 08-22-2006 at 06:18 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by markee on 08-22-2006 at 06:24 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by NiteMare on 08-22-2006 at 06:30 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by -dt- on 08-22-2006 at 06:30 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by Adeptus on 08-22-2006 at 06:31 AM
RE: RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by Mentality on 08-29-2006 at 06:47 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by NiteMare on 08-22-2006 at 07:08 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by Nagamasa on 08-22-2006 at 02:54 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by John Anderton on 08-22-2006 at 02:58 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by ShawnZ on 08-22-2006 at 02:58 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by saralk on 08-22-2006 at 03:02 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by Nathan on 08-22-2006 at 03:11 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - by Nagamasa on 08-22-2006 at 03:12 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Adeptus on 08-22-2006 at 03:31 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by vaccination on 08-22-2006 at 04:11 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Thor on 08-22-2006 at 04:23 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by aNILEator on 08-22-2006 at 07:44 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by ShawnZ on 08-22-2006 at 07:46 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Voldemort on 08-22-2006 at 08:49 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-22-2006 at 09:39 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by vaccination on 08-22-2006 at 10:50 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-22-2006 at 11:14 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by vaccination on 08-22-2006 at 11:29 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-22-2006 at 11:31 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by vaccination on 08-22-2006 at 11:43 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Voldemort on 08-22-2006 at 11:47 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-22-2006 at 11:52 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Chris4 on 08-23-2006 at 01:37 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DarkSebman on 08-23-2006 at 07:52 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-23-2006 at 11:11 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by haydos on 08-23-2006 at 03:47 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-23-2006 at 03:54 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Rubber Stamp on 08-23-2006 at 04:49 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by haydos on 08-23-2006 at 04:49 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-23-2006 at 05:05 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Nagamasa on 08-23-2006 at 10:33 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-23-2006 at 10:36 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Nagamasa on 08-23-2006 at 10:51 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by DJKAL on 08-23-2006 at 10:53 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by ayjay on 08-29-2006 at 12:49 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Nathan on 08-29-2006 at 02:03 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by mwe99 on 08-29-2006 at 02:24 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by user27089 on 08-29-2006 at 02:33 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by blackjack on 08-29-2006 at 05:55 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by .Roy on 08-29-2006 at 07:11 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Rik on 08-29-2006 at 07:19 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by ayjay on 08-29-2006 at 08:17 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Plik on 08-29-2006 at 08:35 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Nagamasa on 08-29-2006 at 09:27 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Voldemort on 08-29-2006 at 09:46 PM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Mentality on 08-30-2006 at 09:00 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by aNILEator on 08-30-2006 at 09:38 AM
RE: BodySearch X-Ray - the x-ray that strips you bare - by Voldemort on 08-31-2006 at 01:52 AM


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