All Posts Tagged With: "whole-body imaging"
Whole-Body Imaging: Intrusion Without Security
Every time the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) fails to protect aviation, as it did when it allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a plane last Christmas Day, it punishes passengers with further restrictions and humiliations. Now the agency wants to virtually strip-search us with whole-body imagers. These gizmos peer through clothing to the skin beneath [...]
19Apr2010 | Becky Akers | 8 comments | ContinuedBig Brother Is Watching as He’s Never Watched Before
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed millimeter-wave scanners at checkpoints in about a dozen airports nationwide. It’s threatening to inflict these gizmos on every commercial concourse in the country. Millimeter waves bombard passengers with beams that penetrate clothing to show the body beneath. Victims don’t undress: the rays do it for them so screeners [...]
1Jul2008 | Becky Akers | 8 comments | Continued-
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