I wonder how long it will take for these to show up on YouTube. Why not just have everyone fly naked?

Domestic travelers leaving Melbourne Airport over the next six weeks will be asked to test new security scanners that can see through clothing.

- Body scanner trial
- Voluntary testing
- ‘Possible to see genitals’

Transport security authorities are trialling the new “X-ray backscatter” body scanner, which has been described by critics as a “virtual strip search”.

The scanner uses More.. a low energy X-ray to reveal any objects, metal or otherwise, under a person’s clothing, including body features. The testing will be entirely voluntary during the trial, which is being undertaken to test how the new scanners would affect the flow of passengers through the security point.

“It does see through clothing, but it’s not a photographic image, it’s a low-energy X-ray that reflects off the skin,” said Cheryl Johnson, general manager of the Office of Transport Security.

“It will show the private parts of people, but what we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities. It is possible to see genitals and breasts while they’re going through the machine, though.”
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