Break out the foil underwear - INVASION OF THE BODYSCANNERS
October 8, 2007
Frank@OBOW in Air travel news

backscatter.jpgThe TSA’s new “backscatter” x-ray body scanners can see right through your clothes, but they wouldn’t dare ogle you:

“The machines are capable of showing passengers’ bodily parts, but TSA says that, due to privacy concerns, they will not. All of the machines will use software that will blur images of passengers, so screeners will see weapons but only fuzzy images of people’s bodies.” - so they said in USA Today

Most of us probably look better on “fuzzy”. The ACLU (who I don’t always admire) has called the technique a  “virtual strip search”. 

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