Security scanners which can see through passengers’ clothing and reveal details of their body underneath are being installed in 10 US airports, the US Transportation Security Administration says. A random selection of travellers getting ready to board airplanes in Washington, New York’s Kennedy, Los Angeles and other key hubs will be shut in the glass booths while a three-dimensional image is made of their body beneath their clothes.
The booths close around the passenger and emit “millimetre waves” that go through cloth to identify metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives, according to the TSA. But the new machines have provoked worries among passengers and rights activists.
By AFP http://au.news.yahoo.com/080610/2/17852.html
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