Los Angeles and New York Airports will install the millimeter wave machines that can peer thorugh clothes and create a fuzzy but accurate image of a body. The technology is claimed to be more effective in searching for “guns, knices, bombs and dangerous materials” than pat-down searches.
Facts (from the article) -
- Scanner called – Millimeter Wave Machine
- Cost – around $150,000
- TSA is planning to buy at least 30 more devices this year for other airports (currently they have it at New York’s JFK airport and Los Angeles Airport’s Delta Terminal).
- Only travelers randomly selected for secondary screening will go through the scanner.
- Travelers can opt not to go through the machine and instead go with “pat-search” method.
- For privacy, the images will be viewed 20 meters away from the scanner
- Though the images are fuzzy, but “they are detailed enough to reveal such features as
breasts and body anomalies“
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