Comments on: Airport worker caught photographing screen as female worker passed through naked scanner

By: netsharc

netsharc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I really wonder what’s the state of the current imaging technology is? That picture here is certainly not erotic, and in my untrained view, not enough to show whether someone’s carrying a C4. Besides, for propaganda purposes it’s to the government’s benefit to show unclear pictures taken using outdated technology, so I repeat, I wonder what sort of pictures do the current machines take?

Well, I just answered my own question, here’s a video: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Airport-Body-Scanners-Breach-Privacy-Rights-Says-Equality-And-Human-Rights-Commission/Article/201002315549986

OK, that’s probably enough for perverts…

By: Felton

Felton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

True, and I realize now that the article doesn’t say what her job is, so there might not be the level of hypocrisy I was assuming. Her coworker deserves to be fired, at the very least, but I reserve plenty of flak for the people who came up with this systematic invasion of privacy in the first place.

By: Greymalken

Greymalken — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Would it be inappropriate to say: Pics or GTFO?

By: Grumblefish

Grumblefish — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think her job involves looking at the image of someone she knows, taking a photo of it, and then audibly leering about it to the person in the image.

I’d be tempted to think it’s a tad hypocritical, though, to be commenting to “The Sun” if you are upset about men leering at your body.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That would be kiddy porn. Now the US government is perpetuating of kiddy porn. Who would have thought?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The big problem with these scanners is that they even have a visual output.

If these are screening tools…and just lead to a secondary search…why even bother presenting or collecting images.

Instead the manufaturer should just have even AI in the the thing to identify “problem areas” on the person…and then have that area highlighted somehow.

Either you pass through the scanner without setting off an alarm…or you don’t (like a metal detector gate).

If you don’t pass…you get wanded or searched.

Having your body milimeter scanned and an image shown on a screen is a huge privacy issue…and given that the search doesn’t end of the screen…but naturally has to lead to a body search of some sort….it’s totally valueless.

The only thing the scanner needs to identify is if there is something suspicious going on. A detailed image of a person near-naked is overkill…and opportunity for misuse/abuse.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And still know body mentions the health hazard of all this ‘x-ray’. I think profit has once again trumped good judgement and freedom has been trumped by fake fear

By: Rindan

Rindan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It seems like a pretty easy to fix situation. Security workers shouldn’t have to go through the device. I mean come on. It is completely degrading. They shouldn’t have to be subject to such humiliation.

…we save that for citizens.

By: PixelFish

PixelFish — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s funny that they’d been assuring us the pictures would be wiped, and not able to transmit to other workstations, when the easiest go-around is to just snap a picture. It reminds me of the scene in Lois Bujold’s SF novel, The Vor Game, where Miles and Ivan get around the security precautions prohibiting transmission of information, by merely turning Ivan’s monitor so Miles can read it over the commlink hookup.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I do agree that the scanner is an invasion of privacy to a degree that makes me uncomfortable. In defense of the traumatized guard, her picture was saved. Certainly, you all can see that this takes the invasion of privacy to a much higher level.

John

By: cymk

cymk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Because you know, no one would ever take a picture of their computer screen. Oh wait-

By: boingaddict

boingaddict — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t wait till i have to go through one of those. I’ll be going travelling soon. Then i’ll make sure i have a raging boner and when they make me go through the scanner i’ll make sure to wink at them afterwards. I will also not be discriminating, i’ll wink both at men and women hehe

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

polling bb
1) regardless of whether this work or not
is this body scanning thing an issue for Europeans who are in general more comfortable about the human body?

2) Like the alien movie series , I envision in the future , we’ll travel in pajamas or robes and go into pods where we’ll be put to sleep before the craft takes off and be awaken when it has landed. only we won’t be doing it in space. I wonder if people would have issues with this, people already do this for surgery visits.

By: quahog

quahog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was singled out of queue in Denver in 2008 to go thru one of these things and at the time was not informed it was a full body scanner. And I think it was because I’m female & attractive and that it was for some TSA person to get their kicks. You bet your ass I am going to be paying better attention to who gets scanned and who doesn’t every time I see one of those contraptions now.

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And it begins…

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Manhattan, meet your new bride.

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And when someone takes a picture or two of children going through?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Who could have seen this coming? Aside from, you know, everybody.

As a transgender person, I’ll take a boat before I get in one of those things I have enough problems with getting hassled about gender at airport security checkpoints. One of these is the last thing I need.

Flying while trans . . . it’s sucktastic.

By: jorgen83

jorgen83 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sr, nw y cn’t wrk nymr…. lzy &(*%^&

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Everything changes when you are on the other side of the scanner.

By: BookGuy

BookGuy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I suppose the “good” news is that, in this case, the guards are just violating each other, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah, rule 34. Is there anything you cant do?

By: Vorteks

Vorteks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“‘I can’t bear to think about the body scanner thing,’ she told the Sun. ‘I’m totally traumatised’”

…but she doesn’t mind that her job involves subjection countless other people too it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The bottom-line problem here was that the culprit was able to bring a camera into the scanning room. This should be prohibited. And to ensure that someone doesn’t smuggle prohibited items into their scanning booth…

(need I continue?)

By: Vorteks

Vorteks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Spelling mistakes ftl.
subjection = subjecting
too = to

By: BookGuy

BookGuy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So here’s an interesting question (to me, anyway): Is there any substance or material that is non-explosive and non-toxic that one could use to write messages on one’s body that would show up in these scanners?

I suppose whoever tries it has to be willing to risk rendition to some horrific torture center in another country, but still…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pics or didn’t happen,

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Any ink with metal in it should show, but you would have to write very large.

By: Godfree

Godfree — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Accompanying your article with a picture of a woman in a scanner (yes, I see it’s from Der Spiegel) seems exploitative, almost as if you meant us to think that it was the very picture that was taken.

By: stephenjjohnson

stephenjjohnson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

From the article: “Air passengers already tolerate a large invasion of their privacy and we do not feel that full-body scanners add greatly to this situation. Privacy concerns should not prevent the deployment of scanners.”

Oh – that’s alright then. I feel much better now.