http://community.usatourist.com/blogs/alerts/archive/tags/scanners/default.aspxTags: scannersenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)http://community.usatourist.com/blogs/alerts/archive/2009/02/19/body-scanners-at-airport-security.aspxThu, 19 Feb 2009 17:11:00 GMT4e4fd63e-77d9-42b3-82cf-24aeb540ec1f:1267Mike Leco1http://community.usatourist.com/blogs/alerts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1267http://community.usatourist.com/blogs/alerts/archive/2009/02/19/body-scanners-at-airport-security.aspx#comments<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA)&nbsp;announced that it will begin using body scanners in place of metal detectors for airport screening.&nbsp; Effective immediately, airport security screeners in Tulsa, Oklahoma will begin using these new machines on a test basis.&nbsp; Within a few months, the airport security screeners at San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City will join the test and also use body scanners.</p> <p>&nbsp;The new scanners require passengers to stand in the machine and raise their arms.&nbsp; The scanners use micro short-wave radio signals to penetrate clothing and reveal both metalic and non-metallic objects.&nbsp; The process takes about 30 seconds.</p> <p>Privacy advocates fear that the images are too revealing of personal body parts.&nbsp; The TSA&nbsp;claims that the machines&nbsp;block out passenger faces and&nbsp;reveal only indistinct images of body parts. Anyone that objects to use of these new scanner will be permitted to refuse, but they must then pass through a metal detector and undergo a manual pat down.</p> <p>The future has arrived!&nbsp; Technological strip searches are becoming part of daily life.</p><img src="http://community.usatourist.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1267" width="1" height="1">TSAsecurityscannersscreenersairport security