Leering US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) staff who are caught having a perv or sharing nude scanning images could be chucked in the clink or fined up to $100,000.
In a measure to placate a disgruntled public, the US Senate is planning to make it illegal to share images taken in the scans. The new guidelines for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration are expected to pass through Congress relatively smoothly.
We wonder how easy this will be to enforce.
The TSA rolled out its Advanced Imaging Technology scanners in 65 airports throughout America last year.
Known as backscatter imaging, the body scanning technology can see through a person's clothes to reveal any metal bombs, shanks, guns and, er, junk. To do this it uses a low intensity X-ray to scan a person's body at high speed.
The X-ray bounces off the body back to the machine, at which point a detailed nude image appears on the screen.
Supposedly the scanners don't have the capability to save or transfer pictures, however recent documents from cases involving the US Federal Marshals reveal that this may not be true.
TechEye has also noted the potential for leaked images among celebs and similar.
Back in November the world's largest association of pilots went to war following the suspension of an American pilot for refusing to be scanned.
They also cited fears that that scanners could emit twenty times more radiation than authorities said.
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1. Utterly ineffective at actually detecting real threats
2. Emitting much higher levels of radiation than claimed
3. So graphic as to violate all the privacy and pornography laws in the EU.
Fun fact: These hideously expensive, invasive, ineffective machines which are mandated by Homeland Security are sold by....wait for it....George W Bush's FORMER DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY, MICHAEL CHERTOFF. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion/
You'll remember that Chertoff was ALSO W's right hand man during the Katrina debacle, standing shoulder to shoulder with the horse trainer that Bush picked to run FEMA, Michale ("Heck of a Job Brownie") Brown.
If you idiots STILL don't understand how much the GOP F*CKED UP THIS COUNTRY, you are beyond help.
And. I'm not even just talking about the way Bush increased the Federal Debt by amounts that are 4x higher than the amount Obama has spent trying to pull us out of the depression Bush created. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24editorial_graph2.html?ref=sunday