Technology

its a good warning, but there's no new info here.

• the scanners are usually not technically x-ray, some are mm wave, some are xray backscatter.
• the technology can see through clothes and produce a grainy bw image of a naked person
• the tech is very closed, and the customers are NDA'd into not letting the public know anything
• the enhanced privacy changes don't change the device - its still taking naked pictures of people, its just doesn't show them to the operator.
• before you look, as of a couple years ago there are just about 6 images from these devices out there on the internet. (iirc, there is a researcher who bought one off of ebay to study, but lost track of their work. )
• its in use in border patrol type operations to see into the trailers, trucks and cars.
• no one can prove they aren't keeping a database of naked people. ;-)

https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy-pia-tsa-ait.pdf

https://www.rapiscan-ase.com/resource-center/technology/z-backscatter-x-ray-imaging

Clickbait article with images from 10 years ago, scanners now show generic body shaped images with the area to search highlighted.

Not surprising at all.

How about when those fucks FULLY RUB YOUR CROTCH DOWN? Fucking shit sucks

Meanwhile, in Canada:

Repeated security audits at major airports such as YYZ show repeated and regular occurrences of airside staff not getting screened for weeks at a time.

Essentially, many airside staff don’t get screened much, but passengers get the Theatre. Recommendations from repeated audits to change this did nothing.

CBC has a whole piece on it. Once post 911, and again years later (nothing changed).

So many holes in airport security, it’s ridiculous when compared to the passengers’ routine denigrations.

I just always figured when I went through one of those was someone was looking at my junk, pervs.

I remember that one guy that was wearing a metallic speedo (or something like) and popped a viagra before being scanned. Not sure about the speedo, but I do know he was... flexing.

Yeah they changed that pretty quick. It hasn't been like that for years now.

I don't fly often, but I did a few months ago, and every airport didn't have a single scanner machine running, it was all metal detectors. I don't know if the machines broke and the money to keep them running dried up, or they just stopped caring, or what.

So there you have it; you don't need to worry about security seeing all your bits and pieces - just whatever you've forgotten to take out of your pockets.

Clearly not written by someone who knows any trans people.

Is there a list of countries that have these types of scanners ?

And where do the original scans get saved? And for how long? Who can access those? Can those images be resold? Can I request my personal data and request to have it removed?

I felt 100% violated when I had to go through a machine like this and haven't felt like flying ever since, I'll take the train thanks. When the kids couldn't be scanned because that would constitue child porn, that's where we should have scratched our head and maybe take a step back.

I own the image of my genitals and have exclusive rights to distribute them, not some TSA human I have never met before.

Millimeter waves is what they use in airport scanners,not x-rays.

They don't call it Rape Scan for nothing.