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"Strip Search' Imaging At O'Hare To Cease
The Transportation Security Administration will phase out airport security scanners that showed detailed under-the-clothing images of travelers' bodies. Part of the reason is long lines.
Advanced imaging technology unit, also known as a body scanner.
Courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration
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Travelers who complained when the Transportation Security Administration introduced extremely revealing security scanners can now rest a little easier.
TSA has announced that it will replace those scanners, called "backscatter" scanners, with a new type that can get travelers through security faster, according to UPI.com.
The new machines, which emit less radiation, are operational in airports in busy air travel cities such as Chicago, New York, Boston and Orlando, USA Today reported.
The old machines show a very detailed image of travelers' bodies, somewhat akin to a nude drawing, which critics have likened to a cyber strip search. The new machines show a simplified drawing of a human figure which is the same for every traveler, the Chicago Tribune said.
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Pat Craig
11:43 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012
WOW! Big Brother is a little less invasive. Groping 6 year olds and grandmothers since September 11 has done nothing to increase our safety, but much to rob us of our personal dignity. Research how many El Al fights have been comandeered... NONE! The Isralis are not bound up in the foolish policical correctness that prohibits profiling. They are more interested in safety than P.C. garbage.
"If all Americans want is 'security,' they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed, and a roof over their heads. But, when an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
President Dwight David Eisenhower