Remember when you were in fourth grade and you wanted a pair of those X-ray specs from the novelty store because you hoped they would enable you to see underneath people's clothes? Well, if you currently work in airport security you're going to be able to belatedly get those jollies you desperately wanted as a kid.Airports in Washington, New York, L.A. and other major cites are installing new 3-D imaging scanners that allow TSA officials to see what everyone is packing under their clothes. Randomly selected air travelers will be shut in glass booths so "millimeter waves" can pass around their bodies, seeing through cloth to identify plastic, metal and other items that might be hidden.
The pictures are extremely clear, allowing TSA security screeners sitting in another room to "ogle passengers' clearly visible sexual organs." The faces of the passengers will be blurred while on-screen, to (sort of ) protect their privacy -- and images won't be stored so as to keep "sexually charged security officers from printing themselves a copy of naked passengers for their own pleasure," according to an article.
Question raised: Is this too much of an invasion of privacy? Is this really necessary to stop another terror attack?
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Sunday 15 June
By Damian
You have to recall that most of the people in this world are unattractive. I personally feel sorry for anyone who has to stare at naked bodies of random people. When I started lifeguarding I fully expected to see hot chicks in bikinis. Not so. Quite the opposite in fact, old people, fat people, and people you have to dress with your eyes to protect your sanity. They wore far too few clothes to make this new security measure a privacy issue. Were there hot girls? Yes, but they did not make up for the fact that I had to stare at ugly people for the majority of my job. My point being that while we all bought the novelty x-ray glasses, we still looked away from the attractive people, lest the glasses decided to work at the wrong moment. Feel sorry for those security people, long days of looking at ugly people naked.
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Tuesday 08 July
By Michael
I have read up on this subject and it turns out the the images are very clear and detailed. Why can't the TSA Agents make copies of the images., 'cause they are 'very clear and detailed' - being forced to eyeball all them oldies only makes the young women's figures all the more..., ummm., interesting., wouldn't most agree? Show me where human nature has ever been over-ridden by 'professional guidelines'. Too, keep in mind that a great number (majority!?) of the TSA Agents come from the low skill labor market and that their training is limited, at best. As to the necessity., arrogance and power-groping on the part of TSA innovators prevented our learning from the Israeli's - they haven't been foiled once in over 30 years of screening and gettin' naked isn't in their criteria. If all our political leaders (?) were to have to bring in their wives, daughters, sons, parents, etc. to be the first to be 'imaged', I'd have to wonder how long this would be allowed...
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