In response to overwhelming complaint from human rights organizations and individual passengers about the exposing images that each scan creates, manufacturers are adding Automated Target Recognition (ATR) software to their scanners. This software allows for greater privacy and efficiency. A generic outline of the human body (same for both males and females) appears on the computer screen. If the scanner detects an irregularity, it will mark the location on the image and the TSA agent can further investigate. If the scanner does not detect an irregularity, then the computer screen flashes a green screen with the word “OK” and the passenger is then free to pass. ATR eliminates the need for a second TSA agent to analyze images in a separate room.

Ah shucks, the poor little passengers become all red faced and embarrassed whilst getting a ''pat down'' and a security screening. It would be much better to abandon the procedure and let the terrorists smuggle their explosives on board and blow the plane and all it's poor wee sensitive passengers to smithereens thus putting them out of their misery. Hey, empty head, get your priorities right and recognise the absolute necessity for the security measures which exist as a direct consequence of the Muslim terrorist threat. If you're for real, you need to get a reality check, never mind a security check.

Being in states and paying taxes says that we give up some of our rights to be safe, so the security violating the 4th amendment is just another one, you voted for the government and this is what the government has decided.

With or without knowing it we are tracked down by the FBI and police anytime, and this isn't because the TSA simply like to "stalk" people, they are professionals who are simply doing their job of protecting us. God knows how many terrorists attacks would have occurred if thousands of weapons weren't seized in airports every year.

From the ACR article: "An airline passenger flying cross-country is exposed to more radiation from the flight than from screening by one of these devices. The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) has reported that a traveler would need to experience 100 backscatter scans per year to reach what they classify as a Negligible Individual Dose. The American College of Radiology (ACR) agrees with this conclusion. By these measurements, a traveler would require more than 1,000 such scans in a year to reach the effective dose equal to one standard chest x-ray."

We also asked the Johns Hopkins University of Applied Physics Laboratory to perform an independent radiation safety engineering assessment of our Advanced Imaging Backscatter Technology and they determined that the radiation dose to scanned individuals from this general use system is within the requirements of ANSI N43.17 2002 and 2009.

-Also wouldn’t it be worse to die from a terrorist attack than to have a minimal chance to contract cancer from a an airport security scanner? And if passengers do prefer a pat down they can do so, no body is forcing them. Everyone in life has a choice...

According to the Transportation Security Administration, less than 3 percent of travelers receive the pat-downs.

But Napolitano said the TSA would "listen to concerns. Of course we will make adjustments or changes when called upon, but not changes or adjustments that will affect the basic operational capability that we need to have to make sure that air travel remains safe."

One possibility that could generate public support is the use of profiling at airports, where the TSA would single out specific passengers for extra screening based on available information. Overall, 70 percent of Americans back the idea, which has been floated as an alternative.

Well, what proof do you have of this? And it's their problem they are simply hiring the wrong people.