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To avoid meaningful profiling, the granny-grope and to prevent any more of their agents from enduring a humiliating titty-twist, Nappy and The TSA Porn Kings will now resort to stick figures or something.
MSNBC:
TSA: New scanner software will protect passenger privacy
By Rebecca Ruiz, Senior editor, msnbc.com
The Transportation Security Administration announced today that it is going to improve the privacy of full-body scanners by installing software that does not create passenger-specific images.
Instead, screeners will see a generic outline of the body on a monitor attached to the scanner. The software will auto-detect metallic and non-metallic concealed items.
Known as Automated Target Recognition (ATR), the software will be installed in the coming months on millimeter-wave scanners, which use electromagnetic waves to produce an image of the body. Of the 488 full-body scanners in airports nationwide, 241 are millimeter-wave and 247 are backscatter, which use low-level radiation beams to create an image of the body.
“This software upgrade enables us to continue providing a high level of security through advanced imaging technology screening, while improving the passenger experience at checkpoints,” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a statement issued by the agency.
Since the enhanced privacy allows the screener to review the image at the checkpoint instead of in a separate room, as is currently done, the TSA expects the scanning process to be more efficient.
The TSA said that the software was tested in February at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, Las Vegas McCarran International and Ronald Reagan Washington National airports. The agency plans to test the software on backscatter machines in the fall.
Last week, a U.S. appeals court Friday upheld the use of the controversial machines, but said the TSA should have sought public comment before installing them at airports.
- That's One Way To Piss On A Protest
If these scanners are so damn crucial to our security, then why did they turn them off at airports around the country? Especially at one like Newark? You think maybe they're been *GASP!* lying about the need for them? NJ.com Newark airport controversial...
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The Hill: Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro By Jordy Yager - 11/23/10 02:09 PM ET The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists...
- No Scan, No Fly
Muslim women who refused to take 'naked' full-body scan are barred from Manchester to Pakistan flight A Muslim woman was barred from boarding a flight to Pakistan after refusing to go through a new 'naked' full-body scanner at Manchester...
- Guardian Newspaper: New Airport Scanners May Break Child Porn Laws - What Would Charles Johnson Think Of That?
The Guardian headline, at this time, actually says: New scanners break child porn lawsI've amended that to "may break child porn laws", because I think that, legally-speaking, that's more fair. The issue has not been settled, though I do, indeed,...
- Up Against The Wall Redneck Right Wing Mother. . .
Because, of course, a full body scan or full body pat down would have done so much to stop a fucking numbnutz from jumping through security at Newark. And of course a full body pat down did so much to stop some dumbass from setting his shorts on fire....
Green Energy
To avoid meaningful profiling, the granny-grope and to prevent any more of their agents from enduring a humiliating titty-twist, Nappy and The TSA Porn Kings will now resort to stick figures or something.
MSNBC:
TSA: New scanner software will protect passenger privacy
By Rebecca Ruiz, Senior editor, msnbc.com
The Transportation Security Administration announced today that it is going to improve the privacy of full-body scanners by installing software that does not create passenger-specific images.
Instead, screeners will see a generic outline of the body on a monitor attached to the scanner. The software will auto-detect metallic and non-metallic concealed items.
Known as Automated Target Recognition (ATR), the software will be installed in the coming months on millimeter-wave scanners, which use electromagnetic waves to produce an image of the body. Of the 488 full-body scanners in airports nationwide, 241 are millimeter-wave and 247 are backscatter, which use low-level radiation beams to create an image of the body.
“This software upgrade enables us to continue providing a high level of security through advanced imaging technology screening, while improving the passenger experience at checkpoints,” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a statement issued by the agency.
Since the enhanced privacy allows the screener to review the image at the checkpoint instead of in a separate room, as is currently done, the TSA expects the scanning process to be more efficient.
The TSA said that the software was tested in February at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, Las Vegas McCarran International and Ronald Reagan Washington National airports. The agency plans to test the software on backscatter machines in the fall.
Last week, a U.S. appeals court Friday upheld the use of the controversial machines, but said the TSA should have sought public comment before installing them at airports.
Would YOU want to try to twist her tit?
- That's One Way To Piss On A Protest
If these scanners are so damn crucial to our security, then why did they turn them off at airports around the country? Especially at one like Newark? You think maybe they're been *GASP!* lying about the need for them? NJ.com Newark airport controversial...
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The Hill: Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro By Jordy Yager - 11/23/10 02:09 PM ET The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists...
- No Scan, No Fly
Muslim women who refused to take 'naked' full-body scan are barred from Manchester to Pakistan flight A Muslim woman was barred from boarding a flight to Pakistan after refusing to go through a new 'naked' full-body scanner at Manchester...
- Guardian Newspaper: New Airport Scanners May Break Child Porn Laws - What Would Charles Johnson Think Of That?
The Guardian headline, at this time, actually says: New scanners break child porn lawsI've amended that to "may break child porn laws", because I think that, legally-speaking, that's more fair. The issue has not been settled, though I do, indeed,...
- Up Against The Wall Redneck Right Wing Mother. . .
Because, of course, a full body scan or full body pat down would have done so much to stop a fucking numbnutz from jumping through security at Newark. And of course a full body pat down did so much to stop some dumbass from setting his shorts on fire....