subscribe to our feed.A while ago I posted about Millimeter wave scanners. Well, it seems the airline industry has seen fit to start piloting those scanners to increase security. Oh, and it gives folks an option for not getting a pat down.
It’s kind of like something out of a science fiction movie. Scanners that can see through clothes and detect hidden threats and weapons. Here’s how it works:
Of course, people are decrying privacy issues on this technology. Here’s what they do to safeguard that:
To ensure privacy, the passenger imaging technology being tested by TSA has zero storage capability and images will not be printed stored or transmitted. Once the transportation security officer has viewed the image and resolved anomalies, the image is erased from the screen permanently. The officer is unable to print, export, store or transmit the image.
In addition to not storing, printing or transmitting the image, the transportation security officer will be viewing the image on a stand-alone machine (vs. network) that is located in a remote area from the screening process. The image will not be visible to the public, and the viewing TSO will not be permitted to bring any camera into the viewing area. The transportation security officer attending to the passenger at the machine is unable to see the image being produced. Communications between the attending TSO and viewing TSO are accomplished by a red light/green light system.
Here’s a brief video on the systems:
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What if they stick something up their butt???
back to the drawing board
Oops: Backscatter x-ray machines “tear apart DNA”
I never thought i’d see the day when Americans would stand for this kind of invasion of privacy and health risk! The more incompetant and lazy Government acts the more people are willing to throw away their rights and liberties. This is embarrasing and brings great shame on every American who neglects their duty to protest this kind of degradation of democracy!
Not to mention the possible abuses this technology is open to! Do you want to have your wife and 14 year old daughter ogled by security perverts or photos of them ending up on the internet? How about nude photos of celebrities and politicians…
“the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
The waves have been found to “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.”
Images will not be printed, stored or transmitted, To ensure privacy, the passenger imaging technology being tested by TSA has zero storage capability and images will not be printed stored or transmitted.
REALY, then whats the photo I see on this page, nobody could take a photo with a cell phone or digital camera , nobody could patch into it, bullshit, also I DONT CARE, IT’S A CLEAR AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL INVASION OF PRIVACY!
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY COUNTRY? are we a bunch of cowards? we have more people dieing from LACK OF HEALTHCARE! lets do something about that…
Invasion of privacy. More waste of tax payers money. The government is going the wrong direction by throwing billions of dollars into air travel security systems which will eventually be pulled for some reason – like the bomb sniffing portals. The only means to combat terrorism before they get onto our planes is Racial Profiling. This means is the only true way of stopping someone with intent to do us harm.
Hey all.
Are there so many people that feel the need for speaking utter rubbish and to sit and negatively comment for the sake of it. What is happening and the need to implement the above is about things that is a reality. This is your, you, my, our children, parents, friends and everyone you know – their protection, would you much rather nothing be done, or the chance for a slip up with a possible threat when a seciruty gaurd is asleep or has a hangover. Stupid people