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More on Being Naked In An Airport
Okay, so why Kelowna?
I refer you to another entry on these silly contraptions: http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/145545.html
Still, I think if someone wants to see my saggy belly and misshapen legs, they should pay me, not have it incidental to me paying them.
Passengers virtually stripped naked by 3-D airport scanner
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 11:54 AM ET CBC News
The airport in Kelowna, B.C., will be the first in Canada to test a new type of passenger scanner that creates a three-dimensional virtually nude image of people.
The new body imager unveiled on Thursday uses high frequency electromagnetic waves known as millimetre waves to create a detailed image of a person at the skin level.
The security guard operating the machine only sees a simplified image on a computer screen that indicates where ceramic weapons and plastic explosives or other suspicious items might be concealed.
But in a separate private room, another officer sees the detailed full-body scan that is essentially an image of the person's naked body.
To be scanned, a passenger simply steps inside a glass pod the size of a large phone booth and puts up his arms above his head.
"The paddles rotate around the body. The radio frequency penetrates the clothing … bounces off the skin and gives … a 3-D holographic image of the body," said Ian McNaugton, the National Sales Manager for L3 Communications, which makes the machines.
If any suspicious items are identified, the passenger is then checked with a conventional security pat down, said McNaughton
Ron McAdam, who manages technology and testing for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority spent months working with Canada's privacy commissioner to make sure the scanner complies with privacy rules.
"The images themselves are not saved ... They are deleted immediately once the passenger is cleared," said McAdam, who added the security guard who sees the detailed image never sees the actual passenger.
In addition, passengers don't have to use this machine, McAdam said. If they have concerns, they can use regular screening lines instead.
Outside the airport, passengers gave the machine mixed reviews.
Hugo Tinno said he would not volunteer. "I think it shows a little bit too much."
But Deena Kamozi, who just dropped off her 14-year-old son, said anything that makes flying safer is a good thing.
"I'm not a big fan of flying anyway, so the safer I feel, the better," she said.
Kamozi said she had no privacy concerns about the body image.
"Not if it's going to protect my family on the plane."
The trial of the $200,000 machine will last until January, after which Transport Canada will decide whether to use the scanner at other Canadian airports.
The low-level radio frequency is safer than a cellphone, which use radio frequencies a thousand times stronger, according to McNaugton.
Other airports around the world, including in L.A., New York City, Moscow and Osaka, are already using the millimetre wave technology, but the machine being testing at Kelowna International is the first in the world to combine the body imaging with a metal detector, McNaugton said.
Oh yeah, and in other news, my involuntarily extended trip has landed me with a doozie of a cold. I guess exhaustion plus all that bad hotel/ airport/ airplane air. I took Wednesday off work as I had two degrees of fever and slept 14 hours. It's Friday and I probably shouldn't be at work as I'm coughing up bloody phlegm, but the cold has moved into my vocal cords so I can call people on the phone and they don't know who I am....
I refer you to another entry on these silly contraptions: http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/145545.html
Still, I think if someone wants to see my saggy belly and misshapen legs, they should pay me, not have it incidental to me paying them.
Passengers virtually stripped naked by 3-D airport scanner
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 11:54 AM ET CBC News
The airport in Kelowna, B.C., will be the first in Canada to test a new type of passenger scanner that creates a three-dimensional virtually nude image of people.
The new body imager unveiled on Thursday uses high frequency electromagnetic waves known as millimetre waves to create a detailed image of a person at the skin level.
The security guard operating the machine only sees a simplified image on a computer screen that indicates where ceramic weapons and plastic explosives or other suspicious items might be concealed.
But in a separate private room, another officer sees the detailed full-body scan that is essentially an image of the person's naked body.
To be scanned, a passenger simply steps inside a glass pod the size of a large phone booth and puts up his arms above his head.
"The paddles rotate around the body. The radio frequency penetrates the clothing … bounces off the skin and gives … a 3-D holographic image of the body," said Ian McNaugton, the National Sales Manager for L3 Communications, which makes the machines.
If any suspicious items are identified, the passenger is then checked with a conventional security pat down, said McNaughton
Ron McAdam, who manages technology and testing for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority spent months working with Canada's privacy commissioner to make sure the scanner complies with privacy rules.
"The images themselves are not saved ... They are deleted immediately once the passenger is cleared," said McAdam, who added the security guard who sees the detailed image never sees the actual passenger.
In addition, passengers don't have to use this machine, McAdam said. If they have concerns, they can use regular screening lines instead.
Outside the airport, passengers gave the machine mixed reviews.
Hugo Tinno said he would not volunteer. "I think it shows a little bit too much."
But Deena Kamozi, who just dropped off her 14-year-old son, said anything that makes flying safer is a good thing.
"I'm not a big fan of flying anyway, so the safer I feel, the better," she said.
Kamozi said she had no privacy concerns about the body image.
"Not if it's going to protect my family on the plane."
The trial of the $200,000 machine will last until January, after which Transport Canada will decide whether to use the scanner at other Canadian airports.
The low-level radio frequency is safer than a cellphone, which use radio frequencies a thousand times stronger, according to McNaugton.
Other airports around the world, including in L.A., New York City, Moscow and Osaka, are already using the millimetre wave technology, but the machine being testing at Kelowna International is the first in the world to combine the body imaging with a metal detector, McNaugton said.
Oh yeah, and in other news, my involuntarily extended trip has landed me with a doozie of a cold. I guess exhaustion plus all that bad hotel/ airport/ airplane air. I took Wednesday off work as I had two degrees of fever and slept 14 hours. It's Friday and I probably shouldn't be at work as I'm coughing up bloody phlegm, but the cold has moved into my vocal cords so I can call people on the phone and they don't know who I am....
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Yet another reason for me to avoid visiting my parents.
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makes you wonder
(Anonymous) 2008-06-24 05:19 am (UTC)(link)~Robin