Comments on: New Airport Scanner Gets Personal

Equipment Peers Through Clothing, Alarming Privacy Advocates

[fitedafuture]

"The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest,truthful,and virtuous."

Frederick Douglass

[anopinion1]

boohoo
some fat woman cried because it showed all of her 387 rolls of fat. she felt it was a bad photograph of herself..
boohoo

any guy can look at a girl and pretty much imagine what she looks like and probably do a better job then this machine..

[fitedafuture]

oh,how convenient it doesnt discriminate against
*** or gender,hmmn school metal detectors ring a bell? like havin some fancier machine is suppose to make us feel safer,what a crock...

[fitedafuture]

ok,lets track their credit card transactions,moniter their money with counterfeit tabs,wiretaps,surveillence cameras,unmarked helicopters,satellites,internet,c'mon whats next?

[fitedafuture]

i saw this movie once it was called Total Recall.

[gmond]

No need to worry about clean underwear anymore..

[annd2302]

Good deal all around, pardon the pun. The dating or mating just might increase or possibly decrease all while being safe. Best of both worlds, huh?

[shanev137]

I think it's great and it looks like it will save time. I always get the pat down because I have so much steel in my body from an auto accident.

[caitlinndad]

stay home , don't fly.
happy now?

[linfinster]

Bring it on! We must get it together folks! You think that the terrorists are just sitting back and watching and laughing at us? THINK AGAIN! They are planning something big. While we p*uss*yf**t around crying about our trampled rights! Can't say I like the idea of my image on a computer and records being made, you know for every action, there's and equal and oposite reaction. No good deed goes unpunished. It will be taken advantage of, I'm sure.
Anyway, I'll get on the plane where everyone was scanned and you can get on the planes where people were not! Feel safer now that your "privacy" was protected?
Yeah, I'm sure you wont.

[glidescube]

What good are all these privacy rights if your dead body is scatterd over a field in Pennsylvania or a smoldering crater in NYC? Once you leave your home and enter a secure area you really have given up your privacy. This is the world we live in today so deal with it. And as long as it keeps us and our loved ones safe and sound it's a small price you should be glad to pay.

I wonder if those innocnet people aboard those planes on 9/11 gave a *** about those terrorist privacy rights? I wonder if the thought even crossed thier minds right before they realized they were going to die!

[canaima]

This machine sounds like a winner, particularly as the article states that backscatter X-rays will be voluntary. One can choose between a backscatter or a traditional pat down. So if you object to it, don't use it, go for the pat down & keep your big nose out of other people's privacy concerns.

[susanhelit]

'critics', 'privacy advocates' - more concerned with making a point, and so tightly focused on their little world that they're crosseyed - they're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Keep my privacy so far as what I am doing (so long as I am not committing a crime), my medical history, books I buy. This is just nonsense.

[susanhelit]

What's the big deal? It's a more effective scan. And let's not be dumb here - any guy can at any time see a perfect body naked by buying the right magazine - looking at a black and white grainy image of you just isn't anything. They can look at my cellulite all they want, if it gets me through security faster.

[j0hnwi11iams]

Their security requires depriving you of yours.