Full Body Scanners - Good or Bad?

[Nightraid]

Oh nightraid, bless your conviction. I suppose we should just forgo any security measure because it's obviously the government trying to keep us down. :3

The full-body scanner is not going to be replacing the metal detector that everyone passes through. I think I'm missing what the big deal is here. D:


and Cantih, lol at your avatar.

Yes but at first it may just be a little thing like seeing your naked body, but one thing can lead to another and pretty soon their reading your mind. :3

http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-fund...-scanners.html

“As far-fetched as that sounds, systems that aim to get inside an evildoer’s head are among the proposals floated by security experts thinking beyond the X-ray machines and metal detectors used on millions of passengers and bags each year,” AP’s Michael Tarm reports.

Tarm focuses on an Israeli company called WeCU Technologies (as in “we see you”), which is building a system that would turn airport waiting areas into arenas for Pavlovian behavioral tests:

The system … projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or some other image only a would-be terrorist would recognize, company CEO Ehud Givon said.

The logic is that people can’t help reacting, even if only subtly, to familiar images that suddenly appear in unfamiliar places. If you strolled through an airport and saw a picture of your mother, Givon explained, you couldn’t help but respond.

Edit: theres no big deal, just i never really expected them to go this far lol

[Cleverness]

[Kuya]

Does not instill trust in body scans.

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/bollywoo...ked-body-scan/

Joking comments on a foreign TV talk show last Friday were either exaggerations designed to self-inflate a Bollywood star's ego or they might signify -- as an ACLU blogger sees it -- that "the future is now."

Civil libertarians have argued that if airports use full body scans on travelers, then it will eventually result in naked images of celebrities being released to the public.

After passing through a full body scan at a London airport, "My Name Is Khan" star Shahrukh Khan claims he was presented with a nude image of himself.

The policy of the British government is to immediately discard the scans but -- if this story is true -- then apparently those instructions are not always followed.

When Khan emerged from the scanner he was approached by several young women. "They had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said 'give them to me' - and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them," he said.

The ACLU has called for a ban on reproducing the images. They insist that the law must provide for a way to victims to recover damages if the scans are released.

We admire Khan's ability to make the best of a bad situation — recall his experience at Newark last year — but we doubt he is too happy about the government allowing perfect strangers to take and keep naked images of his body. All of this points to the need for laws that ban the copying and other misuse of these images as well as a legal right to recover damages if they are.

[Gregorio]

Just another way for the Government to control us pretty much.
They dont have any thoughts on protecting the Public it's all a fraud to increase a "Security" Country where all your actions are monitered.

Sure these Scanners can find Bombs and Weapons, INSIDE the Airport, but what about outside it? They can still detonate Bombs before they get to the Scanners, so basically they will need a Entrance Scanner to get to the Main Scanner to even make this an effective solution.

Also the Man who tried to Bomb a Detroit Airliner was a fraud hired by the Government to be caught on purpose in the act, thus giving Obama an excuse to implement them. This "Bomber" got through Security with No Passport, no Plane ticket and dressed in Face Covering Robes, how the hell did he get through?

Funny how they were implemented without ANY Public knowledge, no Public Voting, no Stages of Law making, not even a "How do you feel about getting your privates coming up on our screens?"
Not to mention they break about a dozen Child Porngraphy Laws.
You can be jailed for having CP on your PC, but these people in Airports are free to look at them? Because obviously my 5 Year Old son has a Homemade Bomb Device on him.

You don't like it, don't fly. Airports are not government run, they don't need to pass bills or have public the public voting on their policies. And whats with the Random capitalization on certain Words?

Edit to clarify: I know that many airports are actually run by local government agencies or firms contracted by government agencies which have to abide by FAA standards, however they aren't an entity which is going to bust down your door and throw you through a scanner. This is an instance where you're going to them. They're not forcing anything on you.