Full Body Scanners

The security scan is a device to frisk a person without making physical contact.

One technology is the millimeter wave scanner, in which extremely high frequency radio waves are reflected off the body to make an image on which one can see anything hidden under the clothes. Unlike the X ray radiation used to scan luggage, this radiation is said to be harmless. Two advantages over a frisk are that it is quicker (takes only 3 seconds) and that people do not have to be touched in a manner that some might consider offensive. A disadvantage is that the scan results in an image of the naked body, albeit of low quality and the true long term health effects of this technology are unknown.

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