On the Road - Whole-Body Security Scans Pass First Airport Tests - NYTimes.com
Originally considered an alternative to pat-downs and wands, and considered by some to be intrusive, the machines may become common at checkpoints.
My initial response to this is definitely, "Umm...No, Thank you."
The image is sent to a "remote location." Well, I appreciate that it isn't viewable by the other passengers standing around, but well...I still don't know who IS looking at it or what they are really seeing or thinking. Can you at least give me a line for women and tell me that a woman is looking at it? (Not that I consider that truly practical with families flying.)
"[T]he images can be adjusted to distort faces and private body parts....[and] will not be stored." Again, all I have is someone's word for this that it is actually happening.
I'm in agreement with the quoted critic and security consultant, Bruce Schneier. It's an invasive practice and it is asking for passengers to have a very high level of trust in the word of TSA.
Will it keep me from flying? Ultimately, probably not. But I'll probably be among that 2% that opt for the older walk-through metal detector as long as I have the option.
Then again, sometime ago (probably a couple of years at this point), I was going through an airport with an experimental detector set-up and I didn't ask too many questions. There was no indication that this is the type of scan being done, but how would it be labeled on the detector?
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