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Design for Social Impact contest winner created underwear specifically for going through TSA security. For covering up your private parts during an X-ray, the set includes bras and boxers with the fourth amendment on them printed in metallic ink.
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A security guard with 40 hours training is not qualified to calibrate a backscatter machine. If something was wrong with the machine there would be no way of knowing how much radiation was being dumped into the skin of a person being scanned (backscatter radiation doesn't penetrate the body but it does deposit in skin).
TSA has claimed over and over again that the machines don't record images but the manufacturer has stated very clearly that they can.
I don't mind pat downs, I've had them before but what they're doing now is shocking and meant to intimidate people into using these machines without question.
I was flying on 9/11 and I very much welcome the safety upgrades, even if it looks like overkill sometimes.
Seriously you don't think any time a person goes through one of these that there's potential for pictures to be taken and circulated? Seriously? Have you seen an airport security guard? Have you never heard of any abuses of the system being perpetrated by airport employees? It happens.
Doctors performing x-rays are not normally doing full-body scans. They do not normally force people against their will to submit to invasive procedures.
Should street cams be taken down? Some people think that's not a bad idea.