Full body scanners: A "virtual strip search"?
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US officials toughened security measures for all US-bound airline passengers, and warned those traveling from or via 14 "terror linked" nations will undergo mandatory enhanced screening.
The terror scare has prompted Obama to order two reviews of intelligence and security operations, and he will meet with spy chiefs and top officials Tuesday to discuss the findings.
Here are the full body scanners used by the various airports to safely screen passengers before boarding.
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Agencies, ST, NP, Singapore Technologies Engineering
The US Transporation Security Administration (TSA) Systems Integration Facility
demonstrated two advanced imaging technologies that are used to safely screen
passengers for metallic and non-metallic threats including weapons, explosives
and other objects concealed under layers of clothing without physical contact.
This file photo from 2007 shows a person hiding a knife behind his back while
standing in the security scan which uses millimetre wave technology at Schiphol
airport.
A computer screen image made using Millimeter Wave technology shows a person
during a demonstration at the US Transporation Security Administration (TSA)
Systems Integration Facility in Washington.
Staff at the US Transporation Security Administration (TSA) Systems Integration
Facility, one playing the role of a airline passenger (L) demonstrate the use
of Millimeter Wave technology for passenger security screening.
Another demonstration by the staff at the US Transporation Security
Administration (TSA) Systems Integration Facility for passenger security
screening.
The People Portal scans a person in 3 seconds. It is the world's first
non-invasive, full-body scanning system. The video image of a scanned person is
a wire-framed, which is gender neutral.
Millimetre wave body scanner at Changi Airport T3. It uses harmless millimetre
waves that bounce off the body to reveal objects concealed under the clothing.
Body scanners are used worldwide for luggage and passenger boarding security
screening at airports.
A TSA officer screens an airline passenger in Terminal C at Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport.
Pre-flight screenings were stepped up after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, of
Nigeria was accused of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight on
Christmas Day.
