Comment on Terrifying reality of what airport security could actually see through an X-ray machine
Lutra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
its a good warning, but there’s no new info here.
- the scanners are usually not technically x-ray, some are mm wave, some are xray backscatter.
- the technology can see through clothes and produce a grainy bw image of a naked person
- the tech is very closed, and the customers are NDA’d into not letting the public know anything
- the enhanced privacy changes don’t change the device - its still taking naked pictures of people, its just doesn’t show them to the operator.
- before you look, as of a couple years ago there are just about 6 images from these devices out there on the internet. (iirc, there is a researcher who bought one off of ebay to study, but lost track of their work. )
- its in use in border patrol type operations to see into the trailers, trucks and cars.
- no one can prove they aren’t keeping a database of naked people. ;-)