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What do TSA agents see on a body scanner image? The full image or just an outline?
Just wondering, what's the update on the full body scanners? I heard so much about them but now it's starting to die off. What do the TSA agents see?
Do they see an outline or the body, same for everyone? The one video blog I watch, the one guy says it's an outline of a body and then if it's metal detected, it will show a rectangle?
OR do they still see the full naked body image?
Just wondering because I haven't heard much about this anymore.
I head Tampa is using the rectangle piece, but are all of them doing that now?
4 Answers
- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
The millimeter wave units now have privacy software to produce an outline image to the screener although the raw image remains in the system and can be reproduced. These are the round gray units (Provision) with glass sides.
The backscatter x-ray units, the square blue units where you stand between the boxes, still do not have privacy software and produce a naked image. The image in these is much clearer in terms of a nude image than the millimeter wave systems. http://www.rupture.co.uk/Terminal%204.html
Many of the major airports such as LAX, JFK, O'Hare, Boston and Phoenix use the backscatter x-ray. In all there are still about 250 x-ray units in operation in the US.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Supposedly it's just an outline, but it's well known that these machines can store the images (presumably in uncensored form), so there's no guarantee that the images won't be viewed by other people without your knowledge.
- Anonymous9 years ago
They never saw a full naked body image - there always have been unclear image without details.
