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"Undressing scanners" in the American airports

7 Jun. 2008

In the 10 of the largest USA airports there will be "undressing scanners" installed that allow to see the shapes of the human body underneath the clothes. In the nearest time there will be 38 of similar scanners installed in USA. The new airline passenger security check system has been presented already at the end of April by the national security minister of the country. The specialists affirm that the faces of people look degraded at the monitors and the images that are seen by the security officers are not stored in the memory of the scanners.

The "undressing scanners" will appear in the airports of Los Angeles, Baltimore, Albuquerque, Denver, New York, Washington, Miami, Las Vegas, Detroit and Dallas. The scanners allow to find plastic or ceramic items on the human body that are unseen by the metal detectors. According to the authorities idea, 2000 of the admission control point of the USA airports will be equipped with new scanners.

The "all-seeing" scanners are already functional also in the Amsterdam international Schiphol airport.

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