"Naked" X-Ray Scans At The Airport.. Your Thoughts?

[Judy from Boise]

Doesen't bother me at all .

 

[Luv2Scrap]

Doesn't bother me. I'd rather feel safe than modest.

 

[clovergirl5]

Even though I would not feel good about doing it at the time due to modesty, I think its a good idea. And hey, everyone's doing it and probably feeling just as self concious as I am. Im sure they aren't gonna be looking at me, they are going to be worrying about themselves

 

[phorsenuf]

I have no issues with it. If it's going to allow me to be able to use my laptop or other device to keep me entertained, then good. I like to read but not for 3 hours straight (that how long it takes me to fly to Florida). I wonder too if it would effect Kindle users. A lot of business travelers use those.
I couldn't even begin to imagine how squirmy little kids would get if they just had to sit there and do nothing. You can only color for so long.

 

[Magic Mom]

Personally I have no problem with it, but I would be uncomfortable with my 10 YO daughter being scanned like that.

 

[sue1013]

It doesn't bother me at all. I'd much rather be scanned than have to be patted down.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

I am not one for "anything to make us safer". With that line of thinking, where do they draw the line? Next will we all have cavity searches to board a jet?

 

[Angelhalo]

If they begin this type of scanning, I will no longer fly... far too invasive for the average traveller and way too much room for abuse.

Agreed

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I'm on the doesn't bother me wagon.

 

[LisaR]

Don't understand the privacy issue. The images are look nothing like the person being scanned. You see a general outline of the person, not intimate details.

I think this has lots of potential except for slowing things down.

I think this needs repeating. Have any of you that are opposed to this seen what the scans look like? We aren't talking Playboy quality here. Someone mentioned these images making it to the internet. If this becomes the new porn............

 

[Angelhalo]

I am not one for "anything to make us safer". With that line of thinking, where do they draw the line? Next will we all have cavity searches to board a jet?

Exactly. People have to be careful with how trusting they are to just automatically say "Oh anything to make us safer" Its an easy way to be duped. It is also an easy way to give more power to more people. Its funny how people will go for the most ridiculous things, giving people immense power if they have some sort of inkling that something MIGHT make them a little safer. I don't trust it at all. Where do they draw the line???

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Exactly. People have to be careful with how trusting they are to just automatically say "Oh anything to make us safer" Its an easy way to be duped. It is also an easy way to give more power to more people. Its funny how people will go for the most ridiculous things, giving people immense power if they have some sort of inkling that something MIGHT make them a little safer. I don't trust it at all. Where do they draw the line???

What isn't to trust?

 

[Angelhalo]

What isn't to trust?

I don't trust the human involvement. I just don't think most people are all that trustworthy, especially ones with that kind of power. Just my personal opinion.

 

[tazdev3225]

I personally am opposed to it. I am an extremely modest person, I won't even change in front of the man I've been married to for 28 years. I also see this becoming an issue with time added to waiting around in an airport, that someone will be clever enough to figure out a way to use these images for their own personal pleasure (do we know the background of these scanners, they may be into child porn and nobody knows it) or posting them on the internet, and the potential that the need for security will escalate to more personally invasive methods. Terrorists will find other means to smuggle what they want, drug couriers swallowing ballons or inserting them into body cavities comes to mind. This all reminds me of the Orwell book with Big Brother watching over us. I will begin taking very long road trips if this is implemented. I want to be safe but more government intrusion is escalating things to an uncomfortable level.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I don't trust the human involvement. I just don't think most people are all that trustworthy, especially ones with that kind of power. Just my personal opinion.

What do you think they will do? Have you seen the images these machines produce?... it's not bad, there's hardly any definition.

I understand it's your personal opinion and I'm not trying to grill you or anything, I'm just curious.

 

[Free4Life11]

Honestly, I think this will do nothing other than slow down the security process and do little to make us safer. Will they make everyone go through these? I have a problem with children and minors being "scanned" like this. It just seems a little creepy to me.

What about using those "blower" machines they have at the Statue of Liberty? I had no problem with that, but it was VERY slow moving.

We are never going to be 100% safe, but I can tell you I feel much safer on an airplane then when I am in a stadium with 80,000 other people. I've never been through a metal detector or been patted down when visiting a stadium. They seem to do very cursory, quick "bag checks." Ever since I saw that movie "Sum of All Fears" I've been convinced that a stadium is going to be the next major terrorist target.

 

[CathrynRose]

Don't understand the privacy issue. The images are look nothing like the person being scanned. You see a general outline of the person, not intimate details.

I think this has lots of potential except for slowing things down.

I disagree. I think it looks like a creepy, naked person.

Have you googled "Naked scanning images"?

Give it a whirl. I personally feel it's far more than 'a general outline'.

 

[merryweather20]

The most recent threats have come from Amsterdam and San Francisco which already have the machine. They don't pick up anything inside the body, so the criminals will all put the items in an orifice, and continue to commit crimes.

The machines seem to provide no additional security whatsoever. They had a local journalist go on one and the images were not safe for broadcast, so they had him go through with a plain sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 paper which covered everything up. That sure did make these machines sound safe and effective

Some years ago I stumbled across a gossipy web-site for medical profesionals, who had posted a number of pictures and scans anonymously and were yuking it up. If we can't trust doctors to keep these things private, I'm not going to trust security personnel.

 

[ICF]

I dont really get what people are opposed to.....

They are not REAL pictures as you would see in a magazine or as taken from a digital camera. These are fuzzy blurry images with nothing that people would be able to look at and go...or look, there's Bob from accouting naked going thru the airport.

I suppose you can tell the true size of certain parts of your anatomy while going through there, but this is hardly porn. Do you think people are going look at these pics and say...check out the fuzzy rack on that girl?!?! People at the beach get a better show than the people working these machines.

IMO...I'd rather be "naked" than dead.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I have no problem with it. CNN recently featured an article on these scanners:

The system uses a pair of security officers. The one working the machine never sees the image, which appears on a computer screen behind closed doors elsewhere; and the remotely located officer who sees the image never sees the passenger.

As further protection, a passenger's face is blurred and the image as a whole "resembles a fuzzy negative," said TSA's Lee. The officers monitoring images aren't allowed to bring cameras, cell phones or any recording device into the room, and the computers have been programmed so they have "zero storage capability" and images are "automatically deleted," she added.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/18/airport.security.body.scans/

That really doesn't sound too bad, and I would have no issues with it.