Our Awful Situation

More airports prepping to use full body scanners

Posted by patriot on April 15th, 2008

Peekaboo, I see you!

Some travelers at key airports in New York and Los Angeles may be put through machines that see through clothing and provide a detailed image of a person’s body beginning later this week.

The TSA says the screener who reviews the images is in a booth, unable to see the travelers.

It’s the first expansion of the program since the machines were first put to the test in Phoenix, Arizona.

The “whole body imaging” machines have sparked complaints from privacy advocates.

But the Transportation Security Administration says that it has taken steps to protect individuals’ privacy and that 90 percent of the travelers in Phoenix preferred the imaging machine to a pat-down.

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