• Lutra@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    its a good warning, but there’s no new info here.

    • the scanners are usually not technically x-ray, some are mm wave, some are xray backscatter.
    • the technology can see through clothes and produce a grainy bw image of a naked person
    • the tech is very closed, and the customers are NDA’d into not letting the public know anything
    • the enhanced privacy changes don’t change the device - its still taking naked pictures of people, its just doesn’t show them to the operator.
    • before you look, as of a couple years ago there are just about 6 images from these devices out there on the internet. (iirc, there is a researcher who bought one off of ebay to study, but lost track of their work. )
    • its in use in border patrol type operations to see into the trailers, trucks and cars.
    • no one can prove they aren’t keeping a database of naked people. ;-)

    https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy-pia-tsa-ait.pdf

    https://www.rapiscan-ase.com/resource-center/technology/z-backscatter-x-ray-imaging