See-Through Scanners Installed In US Airports

Due to new security arrangement, passengers in US airports can now have the choice of either to be checked-in by physical pat-downs or go through security scanners which can see through their bodies and reveal details of their body underneath. The new security arrangement has been installed in 10 US airports for start. This is being revealed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

A random selection of travelers getting ready to board airplanes in Washington, New York's Kennedy, Los Angeles and other key hubs will be shut in the glass booths while a three-dimensional image is made of their body beneath their clothes.

The booths close around the passenger and emit "millimeter waves" that go through cloth to identify metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives, according to the TSA.

While it allows the security screeners -- looking at the images in a separate room -- to clearly see the passenger's sexual organs as well as other details of their bodies, the passenger's face is blurred, TSA said in a statement on its website.

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