Airport Body Scan Sees Under Your Clothes
5 Comments By Eran Abramson on June 9th, 2008 in Hi Tech News
Is airport security sufficient? Should new and creative ways be developed as to speed up check-in process and still keep security high? 10 airports are attempting to test a new body scanning machine that allow personnel to see underneath your clothes.
This technology bounces non-hazardous millimeter waves off of an individual’s body, to provide an extremely detailed black an white image. While they mention that it is advanced enough to see the “sweat on someone’s back”, they do admit that it could not scan through plastic or rubber clothing that resemble skin.
Of course, I am one for increase security measures, since it is better to be safe than sorry, but does anyone have a problem with strangers looking under their clothes? You can see in the images that it does not produce the most attractive images that one would post as a pin-up in their garage, but still the dilemma is there. Security or Privacy?
Via: Engadget
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October 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am
[...] is another development towards keeping your clothes on at Airports, along with the Body Scanner that Sees Through Clothes which was also created for the [...]
October 17th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
That’s disturbing! I think I’ll stay away from the airport if this technology is utilized!
February 5th, 2009 at 1:57 am
this is the most accurate way to tell if someone is hiding something????
February 5th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Probably not the most ‘accurate’ way…but definitely the most privacy invading one.
March 8th, 2009 at 7:21 am
They need to come up with some other way to findifpeopleare hiding stuff we havepretty good technology right? so dont you think they can come up with something without invading peoples privacy.!