They have now come out with a new device that will scan through your clothes and detect other things like ceramic knifes, drugs, and anything else you can think of. It sees everything!
“Well, you’ll see basically everything,” said Bill Scannell, a privacy advocate and technology consultant. “It shows nipples. It shows the clear outline of genitals.”
Of course, this is starting to get some people upset already. The technology for these devices (nicknamed “backscatter’s”) has been around for a while, but when they first talked about the idea a lot of people were more worried about there privacy. The pictures I saw were not really that clear for those that are perverts. Personally though, I don’t fly much, about once a year, twice on a rare occasion (once meaning round trip) and I would rather take some extra precautions instead of crashing into some tall building in downtown NYC. But what are the odds that someone would high-jack a plane and kamikaze it into a building killing nearly 50,000 people? At least I bet they were thinking about that when they first came out with this and wanted to use it. It nice that some people worry more about being gawked at and fondled than being shot in the head.
