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The TSA has thoughtfully provided information, including movies, on their millimeter wave and backscatter body scanners that have gotten so many in a twitter because it can show what generally significant others only get to see, unless, of course, you’re a nudist or Britney. And don’t think wearing a cast on your arm will stop them: CastScope!
How the [millimeter wave] Technology Works
* Beams of radio frequency (RF) energy in the millimeter wave spectrum are projected over the body’s surface at high speed from two antennas simultaneously as they rotate around the body
* The RF energy reflected back from the body or other objects on the body is used to construct a three-dimensional image
* The three-dimensional image of the body, with facial features blurred for privacy, is displayed on a remote monitor for analysis
What to Expect
* Each passenger will walk into the millimeter wave portal. Once inside, they will be asked to stand in two different positions and remain still for just a few moments while the technology creates a three-dimensional image of the passenger in real time
* Once complete, the passenger will exit the opposite side of the millimeter wave portal
* Images will be deleted immediately once viewed and will never be stored, transmitted or printed (the passenger imaging units have zero storage capability)What TSA Sees
Four millimeter wave images: female, front view, female, rear view, male, front view, and male, rear view.Safety
* For comparison, the energy projected by the system is 10,000 times less than a cell phone transmission
* We, and all objects around us, generate millimeter wave energy – and we are exposed to it every single day of our lives
Ah, how comforting. I feel so safe now that America is leading the way with high technology to ensure I don’t do naughty things!
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Uh, no.
But hey, at least you won’t be blown up by nonexistent bombs. That’s cool. Right?
That’s the straw. No more air travel for me. Thank god I got my last trip done before these were announced.
The TSA isn’t doing this to make their job ‘more effective’, they are doing this because they want shiney technologically advanced toys.
That and whoever is making these decisions is a pervert. Wonder if they will require waivers to be signed when people pass through them. I smell lawsuits.
This scanner body is very beautifull.
http://www.nationalledger.com/ledgerdc/article_272633774.shtml
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TSA Test Mode Image Store Privacy Concern – Airport Full Body Scanner
By Marty Cox
Aug 5, 2010 Bookmark and Share
Privacy concerns for the new airport full body scanner. The TSA admits they can store images of people they scan. The units can store in test mode and the images can be sent over broadband or by other methods and stored on off-site hard drive. Just last year the Transportation Security Administration said they wouldn’t store the images.
Privacy concerns aside, Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano says it is full steam ahead and said airport body scanners will soon appear at virtually every major airport.
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Just last summer the Transportation Security Administration claimed that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded,” reports CNet.
Now they have been caught doing just that. At least one machine in an Orlando, FL courthouse has stored over 35,000 images of people that passed through the machine.
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Some are furious.
According to the report: “The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to grant an immediate injunction pulling the plug on TSA’s body scanning program.”
More details from CNet.
The question the group wants answered in a court “Does this violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches?”