cavanami Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 Good news! Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/08/04/lawsuit_challenges_airport_full_body_scanners/ A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the controversial full-body scanners employed at airports across the country, including at every major checkpoint at Logan International Airport. The machines, which use X-rays or radio frequency energy to detect weapons and explosives beneath passengers’ clothing, have been much criticized because of privacy concerns. In the lawsuit, filed last month, the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., said the slightly blurred but accurate pictures of passengers’ naked bodies produced by the machines are the [color:red]equivalent of a “digital strip search[/color].’’... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 When is the theft rate at the airports going to drop to zero? When are airport employees going to get searched and treated like shit like the rest of us are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyinEwa/Perv Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 Not taking a side either way, BT, but it used to be worse/better?? When I first started with my first airline, airline employees (on duty and in uniform) could just bypass/walk around the security checkpoints by showing their airport badge. I believe that ceased when a People's Express employee went to work and killed some people on an airplane. It would still be very easy to do something of the sort but with thorough backround checks and fingerprinting of employees, I think that risk is very low now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 The scanners use ionizing radiation. This can damage a cell's DNA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous God Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 I think I'll walk through with a big boner, hate them to think I had a little dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 The scanners use ionizing radiation. This can damage a cell's DNA. You're an idiot if you believe that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 ... and you're an idiot if you think X-rays is not ionizing radiation. A Columbia University scientist is questioning whether full body scanners used to screen airline passengers may pose a cancer risk. Dr. David Brenner, chief of the center for radiological research at New York's Columbia University, tells the Daily Mail of London that radiation from the scanners has been "underestimated." ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted August 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 On the radio they were saying the rads are 20 to 50 times more than what you get during a normal x-ray! that's a bit much, like waaaaaaaaay to much!!! I vote to pass on this nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 ... and you're an idiot if you think X-rays is not ionizing radiation. Bro, you really should look up something before you post absolutes you know? These scanners do not use x-rays, hence, you have to be an idiot to believe what you said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Will the scanners still work if a passenger is carrying Kryptonite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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