Responding to complaints from female airline passengers that they were singled out for body scans by airport security agents for their looks, the Transportation Security Administration has denied that its agents target women who are attractive.
In a blog post published late Wednesday, a TSA worker known as “Blogger Bob,” said that all milimeter wave body scanners currently used in airports around the country have been equipped “for quite some time” with an upgrade that protect the privacy of passengers. Instead of displaying anatomically correct images that are viewed by a TSA agent in a separate room, upgraded scanners show only the equivalent of a chalk outline of a body, and then only if the scanner has found something suspicious on the person. If the person has nothing suspicious, the monitor simply shows a green screen with the word “OK” on it.
