Airport Body Scanning Software Improves Privacy

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.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=asDqPHOU_0os

Ever pasysenger will generate an avatar that "looks like a guy wearing a baseball cap," eliminating the need to keep an employee in a remote room to view the scans. The TSA aims to add the software to the machines, which sparked complaints, as more airports get the scanners. As of Aug. 27, 194 of the devices were in use at 51 U.S. airports, an almost fivefold increase from six months ago.
The agency is accelerating use of the scanners after the U.S. said Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight on approach to Detroit Dec. 25 by igniting explosives in his underpants.
The 1,000 scanners due at airports by the end of next year will put the devices at more than half the security lanes at major U.S. airports. The funds are coming from last year's $814 billion stimulus law. The 28 airports getting scanners in the second half of this year include New York's Kennedy and Philadelphia, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Houston, Miami, Baltimore, Minneapolis and Seattle, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in July. The new software is already in use at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. Using full-body imaging technology is voluntary, though passengers who refuse to be scanned may be frisked by U.S. security employees. The agency said data show when passengers were offered the choice of the scanner or alternate screening such as a pat-down, more than 98 percent chose scanners.

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[dylantuzyk]

I have no issue with airport security seeing my penis. In fact I've been looking for a while for a way to show airport security my penis without getting arrested so this works out perfectly for me.

[TheDailyConversation]

@dylantuzyk I bet you wink at the woman manning the x-ray machine as you set your size 14s in the conveyer belt...

[EricBoisen]

Nice mic placement lol

[TheDailyConversation]

@EricBoisen lol, i know...

[Tony007corp]

Honestly i am not a big privacy person..what worries me is the radiation that come from these things i think id prefer the pat down..when ever you go to a doctor or a hospital for a test they say "you get the same radiation as you would from flying across the country 5 times" so flying plus these test too much radiation imo

[urantiruslan]

i agreee with you two

[jetbtkng]

these guts are idiots, they dont use them in isreal & when was the last time they had a problem, we should use thier model because they live rite smack dab in the middle of terrorist activity, & have no issues, this is just another attempt by our gov to take more freedoms away, & im not one of these conspiracy theorists ...............

[Meekseek]

Why would I want to be exposed to radiation, I know it's for my own good , ha right!

I have something to hide, my body, it's why I wear clothes, tis my right to be modest, call it a human right I don't want the gov to have a porn image of me just b/c they want to claim it's for our safety.

Scanned images are going to be kept by the feds, now why is that

keep scans of people that checked safe to fly... wtf ?

Spare me this sort of protection, so what's next cavity searches eh!

[iRyaan]

@POLYMORPHLEGION I agree, I would rather live my life in privacy over "protection." Fuck this police-state shit.

[iRyaan]

red shirt is an idiot, btw guys, think about the health risks of people who need to fly somewhere every few days for work-related tasks.

[POLYMORPHLEGION]

i would rather risk being blown up than live like a slave... this is a clear violation of our 4th amendment and those in support of it are fools...

[koolzainski]

2 lib-tard faggots that want government in every part of their lives...

great video.

[christian1127]

If you don't like the scanners Don't fly! Believe me, If there was some terrorist on that plane, you'd suck ass to get padded down in exchange. I don't care what kind of moron he or she may be, They'd have to agree. It's a given, If we don't let the world know we practically strip search, then the terrorist will be using his ass literally to bring weapons on the plane.

[javierbiz]

t think you guys are a pair of idiots, I'm sure you would give your mother away if they told you it was for your own safety. pussy bitches that love the government