TSA Unveils Whole Body Imaging System At Los Angeles International Air
An employee of L3 Communications Security and Detection Systems is scanned inside their ProVision whole body imaging machine, which can see through her clothing to search for banned carry-on items, by Transportation Security Administration officer Evelina Ahsan at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on April 17, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Transportation Security Administration (TSA ) officers will use the Millimeter Wave Whole Body Imaging Technology machine randomly to screen for weapons and explosives beginning this week, according to TSA officials, despite complaints from privacy advocates that the technology reveals too much of one's private anatomy to strangers. L3 and TSA officials say that being scanned by the machines is safe. Travelers at LAX will be continuously and randomly selected to go through the machine. While signs will inform them of a pat-down option but screeners will not announce that choice to them.
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