Except ... when the system breaks down and someone have come to fix it, and after fixing it, it needs to be tested ...
how do you test it to ensure it really is detecting concealed items and what they are?

This is one lightweight technical job some won't want! But ... voyeurs apply now!

I bet if the engineers really applied themselves they could design a better system that only showed the concealed item/s and not the naked person.

By Gerard | November 26, 2009 2:53 PM

Just because no-one HAS to look at the pictures, doesn't mean no-one WILL. The fact that the scans take place at all is where the invasion of privacy is, not in who does or does not look at the results.

By Chris | November 26, 2009 5:21 PM

It may be so that no human eye will see me naked, however, why should I consent to a machine looking at me naked? In my small Catholic world, nobody but god himself should see me naked, not even a machine, except maybe my mother when I was a baby.

By Alex | November 26, 2009 7:19 PM

yeah right.. like no one will use this to giggle at people?

By Laura | November 26, 2009 10:06 PM

I know the scanner at Schiphol- they've had 1 trial machine in place for over a year now. It's in the H-Wing; entrance to bording area for EasyJet. So far i've managed to avoid it, taking the adjacent regular scanner. I don't like it at all. Furthermore, I also don't understand, and worry about, the safety of the new technology used for this new scanner.

By Tracy | November 27, 2009 4:05 PM

safety? naaah, you must be kidding...

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24331/

Big Brother simply likes to peek on you, no matter how much cancer you get from it.

By homer | January 3, 2010 11:21 PM

So that makes it OK? It _still_ is a severy violation of the privacy!!! no such thing should exist, be it human or robot-driven.

Those security forces should take their data and use that, instead of taking it out on average Joe, and having him/her strip for their pleasure or lazyness!!

how long do you think we'll keep up this kind of stupid humiliation? and for what??? so that the terrorist can come upo with the next plan? oh please...

If you want to take down terrorist, take it down at the root, and stop violating innocent people's rights!

But you cannot make the difference between innocent and non-innocent people? -> just read your own stupid files for a change... that would have actually made a difference.

By manx | January 4, 2010 12:30 AM