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.