Whole-body millimetre wave scanners, being introduced at airports across the world, have the ability to virtually strip search passengers. For business class passengers travelling through Moscow’s Domodedovo airport there is no choice – you are ordered into the machine by two strict looking females who then proceed to probe your most intimate areas by computer, using clothes-penetrating rays. Expect this system at an airport near you soon!For more details on millimetre-wave technology and airports, click on:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/zeroday/archives/2007/04/newest_airport.html
http://www.asmag.com/asm/common/article_detail.aspx?module=4&c=1&id=1713
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/11/airport.screening/
The American Civil Liberties Union has branded the scanner an "assault on the essential dignity of passengers that citizens in a free nation should not have to tolerate,” claiming that the technology can pick up graphic body images and even medical details like whether a passenger has a colostomy bag.
Note: It is blog policy not to show naked pictures. If you want to see what the ladies operating the millimetre-wave machine at Domodedovo Airport can see, enter millimetre wave into Google images!
