Jun 11, 2008

Revealing body scanners installed at 10 airports

Revealing body scanners to be installed at 10 airports.

The Transportation Security Administration recently started using body scans on randomly chosen airline passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and New York's Kennedy airport.

Airports in Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas and Miami will be added this month. Reagan National Airport near Washington starts using a body scanner Friday. A total of 38 machines will be in use within weeks.

These graphic scanners are virtual strip searches that leave no bone unturned s shown in upper picture.

The lower picture shows a TSA “peeping tom” viewing the revealing scan of a passenger.

The TSA says it protects privacy by blurring passengers' faces and deleting images right after viewing. Yet the images are detailed, clearly showing a person's gender. "You can actually see the sweat on someone's back."

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