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Airport scans beneath clothes

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is currently testing a millimeter wave scanning system that will enable security officials to see through passengers’ clothing. This technology will detect the presence of weapons, explosives, and other dangerous equipment on a passenger’s body.

Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s technology and liberty program, stated, “This technology produces strikingly graphic images of passengers’ bodies. That degree of examination amounts to a significant — and for some people humiliating — assault on the essential dignity of passengers that citizens in a free nation should not have to tolerate.”

Source: Information Week

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