Airport body scans are among the security measures used to keep passengers safe and deal with the threat of terrorism, but what many may not realize is that body scans are not without risk.
Some of the latest body-scanning technology can allow those enforcing security measures to use the technology to see through clothes and that can create a privacy concern.
The new technology is able to blur a person’s facial features, but those concerned about privacy claim the blurring of facial features does not do enough to protect flyers' privacy.
The images produced by body scanning imaging technologies can’t be saved, printed, uploaded, emailed or sent as an attachment anywhere.
According to the Transportation Security Administration, the new airport body scanners don’t leave any type of retrievable record.
Those concerned about privacy claim the new technology produces images more graphic than the TSA would lead people to believe.
