Are you OK with Full Body Airport Scanning?

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

After being ordered by a DC circuit court to hold public rulemaking hearings for its Whole Body Imaging scanners more than a year ago, the American TSA has finally opened the screening policy for public comment. As of today, the TSA has received more than 600 public comments, and online comments will be accepted through June 24th at 11:59 PM ET — you can file your own comments on the government's Regulations.gov website.

The TSA's full-body scanners have received a critical eye from privacy advocates and the general public; the scanners are said to be an invasion of personal privacy, and ineffective as a security measure to boot. The scanners create images of the front and rear of a person's body, with concealed objects highlighted in black against white skin. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), along with other privacy and civil rights groups, filed a petition with the Department of Homeland Security in 2010, demanding that the TSA conduct "notice-and-comment rulemaking," which it failed to do before deploying the Whole Body Imaging scanners at airports.

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If they work (and I not that there is some doubt) yes. Anything for my safety; there won't be time for workers to ogle me or anyone else; I've nothing they won't have seen before.

If someone wants personal privacy, they should take the train or a boat.

[sadie1263]

Can I get a copy and use it as part of an annual medical examination?? It would be really cool to have other people in it and pose......maybe use it as Christmas card!!

I don't figure I have anything someone hasn't seen.........and I would prefer it to being felt up by someone that doesn't take me to dinner and a movie first or doesn't call me the day after.......makes me feel cheap and used.

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what's the problem with it? and does it show if something is ...erm ... inserted into the body?

[Hunny]

The problem with it is it's going further than necessary.
And TSA goons aren't doctors.

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I don't think there's an easy or foolproof way to do security.

I'm probably ok with it on the whole;' after all I don't weannt to be blown up by some nut!

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Apr 23, 2013 10:58:00 GMT Hunny said:

The problem with it is it's going further than necessary.
And TSA goons aren't doctors.

why is it going further than necessary ? surely they need to do this as there are things that can easily be missed on a normal search

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Apr 23, 2013 10:58:00 GMT Hunny said:

The problem with it is it's going further than necessary.
And TSA goons aren't doctors.

Surely if a metal object shows up, there will be doctors to do what is necessary?

It would be even better if the scans showed if drugs had been swallowed or -erm - stuffed but I doubt if the technology has got that far.

[sadie1263]

I would rather they do it this way then the feely touchy thing!!

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FYI ladies don't hide things up your wazoos!

[♫anna♫]

Apr 23, 2013 19:13:21 GMT sadie1263 said:

I would rather they do it this way then the feely touchy thing!!

That does seem to be the lesser of the 2 evils. The scans however can be "inverted" as this site explains and misused by low paid airport security.
www.riprenfield.com/2010/01/†-rip-renfield-535-here-comes-the-sun-†/

[sadie1263]

As long as they take off some of the fat and maybe a better set of boobs......I'm fine with it!

Wonder if I could write something rude in fluorescent ink on my back or tummy first?

[Hunny]

Every invasive, freedom-curtailing thing they shove at us, people excuse as "needed for safety". Well I dont see how stripping absolutely everyone down naked is necessary. Would you take off all your clothes for the TSA guy? Well that's what this scan does. I'm sure there is some need to screen for weapons for our safety but this is treating us all as if we're prisoners that need to be strip searched. People really ought to say 'no' once in a while, that's all. We dont have to rationalize and accept every little thing that gets shoved at us.

[sadie1263]

The terrorists succeed by forcing us to live in cages of our own making.

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Apr 24, 2013 15:09:21 GMT Hunny said:

Every invasive, freedom-curtailing thing they shove at us, people excuse as "needed for safety". Well I dont see how stripping absolutely everyone down naked is necessary. Would you take off all your clothes for the TSA guy? Well that's what this scan does. I'm sure there is some need to screen for weapons for our safety but this is treating us all as if we're prisoners that need to be strip searched. People really ought to say 'no' once in a while, that's all. We dont have to rationalize and accept every little thing that gets shoved at us.

No, I wouldn't strip for someone standing in front of me unless they had a good reason to ask, and then it would have to be a she, not a he.

But if I'm one of hundreds just passing through - no-one will identify me. And why would staff want to enhance my very dull body when they can come onto Bitbots and look at a picture of someone much more interesting?

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I got nothing I wouldn't be happy with people viewing.

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Apr 25, 2013 9:45:59 GMT Gibby said:

I got nothing I wouldn't be happy with people viewing.

Are you sure?

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May 7, 2013 2:33:37 GMT @rusty said:

Apr 25, 2013 9:45:59 GMT Gibby said:

I got nothing I wouldn't be happy with people viewing.

Are you sure?

Ok I accept I was being a little "coy" in this photo , but a girl has to try and be classy once in a while

[Emerald]

It doesn't bother me in the least