'Virtual strip search' arrives at JFK and LAX  Public exposed to
electronic heavy patting  The US Transport Security
Administration (TSA) has celebrated the successful trial of 'see
through clothes' scanners by ordering 30 more of the millimeter
wave devices for Los Angeles and JFK International airports this
spring.  The scanners, which produce a whole, naked, body image,
have been in use at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport since October
last year, following an earlier deployment there of backscatter
whole body scanners.  Neither flavour of scanner seems to have
massively outraged the Phoenix air travelling public, and the
TSA claims a 79 per cent acceptance rate for backscatter, which
uses low intensity x-ray technology. In Phoenix, however,
backscatter was offered as a voluntary alternative to a pat-down
to passengers selected for secondary screening - i.e., it wasn't
an option offered to all passengers, just for the ones security
was already suspicious of, or who thought security was already
suspicious of them.