Are you willing to show off your body parts to airport security personnel?
Are you willing to show off your body parts to airport security personnel??Okay, I’ll admit I used “show off” mostly to get your attention. But surely you’ve heard by now that new body scanning machines are being installed — at a cost of $170,000 per machine, I read — in U.S. airports. One article I read explained that “electromagnetic waves to create pictures of energy reflected off people. The metallic-looking images show outlines of private body parts and blur passengers’ faces.”
Good to know they blur faces, but I think I’d be much more comfortable showing my FACE rather than, uh, well you get it.
That same article says they detect hidden objects on a person as small as a button. Certainly that is more effective than going through a metal detector or whatever and trying to catch everything from a nail clipper to a box cutter. In fact, according to that USA Today article, these scanners will eventually replace the 35-year-old metal detector system currently in place.
Still, and even though only a handful of people have so far objected to the new scanners, I’m not sure I’m personally comfortable with someone in the TSA seeing that much of me. What do you think?
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The new machines are good but not 100% get every piece of hidden metal.
But, remember 9/11. You don’t want it to happend again, and without using new technologies,and without understand of the public… it migaht happend very easly again.
About your body check, you can make sure that your privecy will be kept, and only a security male agent will see the screening image..