The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the scanners as a way to screen millions of airline passengers for explosives hidden under clothing.
The European Commission, which enforces common policies of the EU’s 27 member countries, adopted the rule “in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens’ health and safety.”
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European countries will be allowed to use an alternative body scanner, on that relies on radio frequency waves, which have not been linked to cancer.
And then there was this little tidbit:
Within three years, the TSA plans to deploy 1,800 backscatter and millimeter-wave scanners, covering nearly every domestic airport security lane.
I feel so safe now with all my tax money going for this.
pedro said: “Idiots will be idiots.”
As you prove so frequently.
I’m not really a conservative nor a liberal. I’m just a guy who would like to see the Bill of Rights reinstated.
Are you seated? Because it’ll be a while for that to happens
My old company rejected these machines (or very similar ones) on health and safety grounds.
Guys only care about this because they are afraid of revealing their penis size.
You are embarrassed and insecure about your penis. This is fundamentally what it comes down to.
Try and retroactively apply other arguments to it, but we know what it is you are thinking deep down.
The one not thinking deep down is you who has no idea the amount of radiation you’re already exposed just by traveling by plane nor the fact that the exposure to radiation is cumulative.
In other air travel related news that make me caption the picture above like “this is how we have the US by the balls”, a pilot goes to the loo before landing and gets stuck in bathroom, TSA-like hilarity ensues.
http://nyp.st/uJsQQa
Beanis says:”afraid of revealing their penis size”
Sorry. That would just make the screeners jealous. Nope. It’s not the size of the penis but the size of the tumor I worry about. As a medic, I have to work around some radiation exposure. I do everything I can to get the minimum. Since I work internationally, I have to fly. Hard to get a trans-oceanic choo choo or a slow boat to Kabul. So, I do everything I can to minimize my radiation exposure and that means “Opt Out.” So, I take the damned groping and snicker at the admiring looks on their faces…