Full Body Scanners Produce Detailed Images of Naked Bodies

[Jennifer Groves]

BO’s recent authorization of full body scanners to be used in airports across the US will reveal far more than most passengers realize. They are the equivalent to a virtual strip search, including detailed images of genitals.

The media are once again lying about the invasiveness of these scanners. Images shown on TV have been blurred, but in real life, they produce high-res, very distinct nude images.

http://www.infowars.com/inverted-body-scanner-image-shows-naked-bod...

It’s my understanding that a full strip search can only be performed if you’ve been arrested or officers have a warrant. These scanners are illegal and a total invasion of privacy, all in the name of “security”.

These scanners, if they are to be used at all, should only be used on people with a passport from a country on the watch list. Why should the rest of us suffer through this?

And it raises SO many other questions. BO says the images will not be saved. I wouldn’t bet on that. How long will they be saved? Who would have access to them? Even if they aren’t saved, it would be easy for a TSA employee to snap his or her own photos of the monitor and sell them to the highest bidding porn site, where they would be on the web for all to enjoy. Photos of adults and children alike.

I will not permit my government to treat me like a criminal.

[Jennifer Groves]

I don't think it's causing enough problems in terms of people speaking out against it. And these images show nothing they couldn't already get with their current scanners--except for porn purposes. As the Dateline trial showed, the new scanners do NOT reveal powder substances; only metal and skin show up clearly.

[Jennifer Groves]

Just saw Dateline's "Passenger in Seat 19A" that aired tonight re: the Underwear Bomber. Brian Williams went through one of the new scanners. The rep he was interviewing from Rapiscan Systems insisted the airport images would be "filtered", admitting that the scanner does produce very detailed images of the body. So detailed that Williams covered his genitals so they would not appear on the scan. And NBC was careful not to show any close-ups of the scans. But I'm sure air travelers will not get that respect.

Williams had a "hidden" syringe and baggy of sugar (to imitate the bomber); the TSA agent who viewed Williams' scans missed the syringe entirely and the sugar was not at all visible in the image, though the Rapiscan rep insisted it would be. When the sugar didn't show, the rep said, "well, it would have been visible if it had been real explosives". And we're supposed to believe that?

These scanners would not have helped AT ALL in detecting the Underwear Bomber's hidden explosives. So how are they a help? Airports can already check for metal weapons w/o these full body scans, and that is all that appears on these images. The needle in Williams' syringe did show up, but it was so thin the TSA rep missed it.

And, while the Rapiscan rep insisted airport images will be "filtered", he later also said the airport scanners would have "enhanced detecting capabilities". I don't think BOTH of these statements can be correct.