Senator Harry Reid and Dr. Bill Wattenburg Discuss Solution Found For Airport Full Body Scanner Privacy Objections

Senator Harry Reid appears on the Bill Wattenburg show praising the scientists who invented a way to modify the airport whole body scanners so that they no longer display profiles of passengers without their clothing.

This simple solution was developed at Lawence Livermore Labs in 2006 involving the work of Dr. Bill Wattenburg, confirmed by the following Washington Post story in 2010 - and now TSA confirms it is finally being done...

Scientists say they have solution to TSA scanner objections

WASHINGTON POST - A cheap and simple fix in the computer software of new airport scanners could silence the uproar from travelers who object to the so-called virtual strip search, according to a scientist who helped develop the program at one of the federal government's most prestigious institutes... 

The fix would distort the images captured on full-body scanners so they look like reflections in a fun-house mirror, but any potentially dangerous objects would be clearly revealed, said Willard "Bill" Wattenburg, a former nuclear weapons designer at the Livermore lab. The scanners normally produce real-time outlines of the naked human body, and the Transportation Security Administration has been embroiled in controversy since installation of the new scanners began last month... Read full article at Washingtonpost.com

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