Ten airports running body scanners, more to follow

[thewayne]

They image through your clothes and show anything that might not be seen by a magnetometer scan. It shows your gender quite clearly, the article quotes someone as saying that they can see the drops of sweat on your back.

The scan images are deleted immediately after the scan, or so they say.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-06-05-bodyscan_N.htm

Some interesting comments on Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/07/0042248

Comments

[silveradept]

Ah, wonderful. In lieu of an invasive random pat-down, we now have an invasive imaging technology. I can see this tech being adopted for CCTV everywhere.