New Full-Body Scanners Coming to Two Airports

[zephyp]

I dont think I'll be going through one of these...check out the pics on the link below (click on the pic to get a bigger image). Looks like they get a nice shot of you in your birthday suit. That cant be good for you mentally or especially physically...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587292,00.html
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New Full-Body Scanners Coming to Two Airports

A combination of images shows an airport staff member demonstrating a full body scan at Manchester Airport in Manchester, England.

WASHINGTON — The first of 150 full-body scanners planned for U.S. airports will be installed in Boston next week, officials said Tuesday.

The plan is to install three machines at Logan International Airport, according to a homeland security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made. In the next two weeks, officials plan to install another machine at Chicago's O'Hare International.

The rest of the 150 machines that were purchased with $25 million from President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus plan are expected to be installed in airports by the end of June, another homeland security official, spokeswoman Amy Kudwa, said.

The use of the scanners in airports is key to the Obama administration's plans to improve airport security because of their ability to show objects hidden on the body. Body scanners have been available for years, but their deployment has been slowed by objections from privacy advocates.

After a Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner last Christmas, Obama called for purchasing hundreds more of the machines on top of 150 already announced last year. Other countries have also signed on to use the technology, including Nigeria and the Netherlands, where the final leg of the man's flight originated.

The passenger allegedly hid the explosives in his underwear, and the materials went undetected as he went through screening in Nigeria and Amsterdam.

Experts have said that the full-body screeners would not have picked up the suspect's hidden explosives.

The machines show the body's contours on a computer stationed in a private room removed from the security checkpoints. A person's face is never shown and the person's identity is supposedly not known to the screener reviewing the computer images.

Still, the American Civil Liberties Union has denounced the machines as a "virtual strip search."

The new scanners have not been available since the Obama administration announced last February it would provide $1 billion for airport screening as part of its stimulus plan.

In May, the administration detailed how that money would be spent — including $25 million for the new scanners. Between May and September, the department asked contractors to provide proposals for building the scanners.

Competing models were tested over the summer, the homeland security official said.

The department awarded the contract to California-based Rapiscan at the end of September.

In the past five months, airports and the Transportation Security Administration worked to get construction and electrical permits necessary to install the machines.

Boston and Chicago were selected based on risk, the official said, and whether the airports were physically able to install the machines and provide screeners to operate them.

Currently 40 full-body scanners are operated in 19 airports across the country, official said. Six of those machines are being used instead of the standard magnetometer screening machines that most U.S. passengers go through before boarding an airplane.

[Unkn0wN]

I read an article about 2 weeks ago of someone famous... I think it was an actor that went thru some full body scan. The female attendants actually printed the images out and the actor thought it was so cool (because he wasn't lacking in certain areas). He even autographed the images for them.

I wish I could remember who it was, I could google it and post the article.

I will say, it is a bit overboard the way it shows everything.


EDIT: It was an Indian actor, here is one story (not the one I originally read):

“I was a little scared. Something happens [inside the scans], and I came out. Then I saw these girls – they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said ‘give them to me’ – and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them,” stated Khan.

http://www.infowars.com/exposed-naked-b ... ort-staff/

Then the Airport denied that they could print images, but a new story basically says they can

Scannergate: Facts Contradict Heathrow Claim That Naked Images Can’t Be Printed

leaked government documents that prove the x-ray backscatter machines do have the option to store and send images, as well as actual images of the print outs that are freely available on the Internet.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/scannergate ... inted.html

[OakRidgeStars]

This should provide a much needed boost to the lead-lined underwear market

[BluemontGlock]

as usual...the government is lying...all the governments are lying, and now in conjunction... 2...3...4....

can't print...no face...separate location,,....unknown to scanner...

lies , lies , lies

if there is going to be change, the gov't has to stop lying long enough for me to try to believe them...

Legislator = Lier

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