Airport Wants to See You Naked
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Stumble ThisAirport's 'Naked' Scanners.
WFT - This is about as bad as it gets. There is no way the airports should get to see everyone naked - Holy Blatant Invasion Of Privacy!!
BODY scanners which quite literally reveal all are to be introduced at Manchester (UK) Airport. Bosses admit the new high tech machines, which can see through clothing, leave 'little to the imagination' and will even detect prosthetic limbs and breast implants.
WFT - This is about as bad as it gets. There is no way the airports should get to see everyone naked - Holy Blatant Invasion Of Privacy!!
BODY scanners which quite literally reveal all are to be introduced at Manchester (UK) Airport. Bosses admit the new high tech machines, which can see through clothing, leave 'little to the imagination' and will even detect prosthetic limbs and breast implants.
And she is selling us this idea like it's a good thing...
"Douchette!!!"
At least this way I don't have to be near the person violating my privacy, so I'd pick this one over the physical.
Win, win.
I think the potential for abuse seems pretty high here, and I don't think comparing it to a gynecologist is fair. The guys that work the x-ray and inspection machines probably had to attend a 1 week seminar on how to operate the machinery and what to look for. I don't think that compares to the $100k or so of Getting an MD and the years of education/training/and ethical philosophy. Not to mention that the scanner and the scaned are basically anonymous to each other. If something happened you wouldn't know who did it, and they wouldn't know who you are so they'd be less caring about violating your privacy.
If I can avoid that (and the whole slow-moving shoes/belt/keys lineup/hassle) I'll gladly show some airport employee a fuzzy picture of my wiener.
Oh please, like you would need THAT much incentive... with me, the difficult job would be to have me STOP showing fuzzy pictures of my wiener.
Funny that they showed this on television with that completely nude guy standing there and everyone acting like there was nothing to notice.
"Yerhar...that's not a bomb, those are just his bawls! Let him pass."
I fell kinda dirty.
and yet, this leaves me quite prepared to pass through one of these scanners now!
I cant wait to see who makes lewd gestures.
EVERY THING IS TERRIBLE!!!
"...and I don't think comparing it to a gynecologist is fair. The guys that work the x-ray and inspection machines probably had to attend a 1 week seminar on how to operate the machinery and what to look for. I don't think that compares to the $100k or so of Getting an MD and the years of education/training/and ethical philosophy. Not to mention that the scanner and the scaned are basically anonymous to each other. If something happened you wouldn't know who did it, and they wouldn't know who you are so they'd be less caring about violating your privacy."
No...dude...I meant 'like' as in "when you've seen 'em all...mostly in their worst condition..."
Do YOU want Arnold to crash through glass in your airport? I know I sure don't. I just want to sit around and bitch about slow boarding times while eating Cold Stone Creamery exotic ice cream.
>> ^krazyety:
What about if the male attendant checking men is gay?
What's so bad about being seen naked? With the proper safeguards in place (men only see men, women only see women, etc.) - what's the problem?
Now I do not consent to an unlawful search. However the private Airline has the right to deny my flight privileges. Which is simply why I refuse to fly.
I will not consent to what I believe to be an unlawful search of my body.
Someone will find a way to subvert this mechanism, and then the security designers will find a way to patch it. So on and so forth. Its not so much a slippery slope argument as a futile effort to avert crisis. Which only adds to the stupidity of it all.
Now we get lead lined cod pieces.
You can say all you want about the benefits and the downsides but here is the bottom line:
Do YOU want Arnold to crash through glass in your airport? I know I sure don't. I just want to sit around and bitch about slow boarding times while eating Cold Stone Creamery exotic ice cream.
Funny, that's the exact clip I was thinking of while I watched this!
I'm taking the train!
Then later someone will release a study that it's a 1000 times more likely to give you cancer than a normal x-ray machine, at which point Republicans will introduce legislation that make them mandatory in every home, because the terrorists will win if people don't get electronically strip searched before they leave their house each morning.
But how long until they finally invent a method to remove all bodily fluids and gases? It's completely unacceptable that you can still get aboard with a bowel filled with sarin gas.
But who is going to monitor that? That's alweays the problem. Maybe the first year this will happen, but when they install this machine at your airport and everyone is used to it, who knows if they will still do it correctly?
Hope the accordion doesn't pinch anything.
Just more security theatre. I'm with alizarin, bollocks to the lot of it. I don't think any of this is enough to stop a terrorist gang, so let's get back to reality and let people fly in peace.
I'm really starting to hate the world we live in at the moment.
Don't ask, don't tell...
>> ^krazyety:
What about if the male attendant checking men is gay?
THERE WAS SHRINKAGE!!!!
Yeah, my body isn't in the top 10 sexy...or 100...or even 100,00....
But at least I'm not fat!
gwiz is from UK right? they're almost as fat. demon yer from isreal right? wouldn't there be chunks missing from everyone and shrapnel stuck in everyone there from your ongoing attempts to blow each other up? all americans are fat, and all isrealis are maniacal vigilante maniacs right
and don't you dare get me started on the Dutch
They say that as soon as someone is cleared, the image is automatically deleted.
The lady said that there was no more radiation involved here than eating 2 brazil nuts. I had never heard of radiation being measured in quantities of brazil nuts but Google does seem to accept this measurement.
She also said that she would be very happy to use this method instead of being patted down. So the question is: why did they show the fat guy being scanned instead of her?
oooo... bourned.
Why do videos like this get a "British" tag? If it were presented by an American woman it wouldn't get an "American" tag.
Because it's Manchester Airport, which is located inside the United Kingdom! That's where BRITISH people live! You know this because the United Kingdom is also known as Great Britain -> British people.
Get it?
^
and don't you dare get me started on the Dutch
What's wrong with us? We're only #20 on the country obesity rankings. (10% obese vs 30.6% in the US)
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Why do videos like this get a "British" tag? If it were presented by an American woman it wouldn't get an "American" tag.
Because it's Manchester Airport, which is located inside the United Kingdom! That's where BRITISH people live! You know this because the United Kingdom is also known as Great Britain -> British people.
Get it?
You miss my point (or are you being sarcastic?)
If this video were shot in JFK airport, it wouldn't have an 'American' tag.