It was the guy in the cap!!

Virtually weird. Strip search scanners will now inflict another indignity: they’ll make you look like some generic dweeb in a baseball cap….

The concerns of travelers such as Powell, which led privacy advocates to sue the government, may soon be eased. L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. and OSI Systems Inc.’s Rapiscan, makers of the scanners for U.S. airports, are delivering software upgrades that show a generic figure rather than an actual image of a passenger’s body parts. The new display would mark sections of a person’s body that need to be checked.

The revisions “certainly address most of the privacy concerns,”Peter Kant, a Rapiscan executive vice president, said in an interview. Every passenger will generate an avatar that “looks like a guy wearing a baseball cap,” he said. - Bloomberg

Man, I’ve got a shirt just like that, but my stomach’s not nearly so flat. All in all, a poor resemblance.

Comments

[Till]

If they do that, most of my privacy concerns would be taken care off, I guess. Why not do a schematic stick figure anyway? Getting small kids and wheelchair bound folks to stand still with their arms up is not going to be easy, though. ;)

[Wimpie]

"Advanced Imaging Technology" is a euphemism created to make people think they are getting "scanned." No one is getting "scanned" -- they are getting strip searched.

The fundamental privacy issue is whether our government has the right to make strip searches routine and mandatory.

There is no question that these machines violate the 4th Amendment.

There are also health issues. Researchers are already coming out saying that the machines aren't safe and could cause cancer.

Please check out the brochures at:
http://airportbodyscan.org
http://www.nudeoscope.com
http://ThousandsStandingAround.com
http://scrapthescanners.wordpress.com
http://dontscan.us
http://dontscan.me

and join us on Facebook
All Facebook Against Airport Full Body Scanners
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=239458517874

and join in on Flyertalk.com
Organized resistance to WBI/invasive patdowns
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/1119548-organized-resistance-wbi-invasive-patdowns.html

HELP PUT A STOP TO THE TYRANNY!