الاثنين، 26 ديسمبر 2016

General Facts Regarding Full Body Scanners

By Edward Reed


Humanity has always strived to ensure that they tackle all their problems regarding insecurity using the best of their knowledge possible. The main way of doing so has always been utilized to use technology owing to the increasing terrorist risks and other forms of insecurity. The reality about full body scanners is a good way forward of dealing with this problem.

These scanners are unique items that have the potential of identifying what one has carried within them without the need of checking them manually. They have found the place in many places where they have taken the part of metal detectors. They have become a must to be having them in airports, and they have been able to replace the metal detectors that were used initially.

Over the past two decades, there have been increasing risky activities in planes including terror actions owing to people carrying unauthorized items that are a risk to the rest. More so, drug smuggling has been on the rise with smugglers developing newer strategies to elope with the substance unnoticeable creating a need for these devices.

In every airport, it should not be a surprise to meet any gadget in the form of a door that one is forced to pass through. These items make use of the technology of laser beams and x-rays where a ray of a particular wavelength passes through the body from head to toe. Through this, an animated image of the person scanned becomes visible to the security personnel.

Depending on the company making the device, the device can be of two folds. There are those are designed such that they can go ahead to detect and send a signal in the form of an alarm in the event of a suspicious item. On the other hand, there are those that need a person to check the image displayed to identify any unlikely item observed.

These gadgets have taken the roles that were initially played by metal detectors that were the in thing back then. Metal detectors are only limited to metals. On the other hand, scanners have the ability to identify anything even those that are not metallic. Through them, therefore, detection of drugs being trafficked is possible.

Despite the good job that these devices have made possible over the years, there are groups of individuals who seem not to have a place for them. There are those who claim that overexposure may be a reason for cancer development. Another group, are afraid that their privacy is normally overlooked when the image is displayed on the screens during the scanning process.

All in all these drawbacks that seem to come with these devices should never be an issue since privacy has been well solved owing to the oath of privacy that each staff has to take before undertaking their roles. By this, therefore, the personal details that can be observed during the scan will only be confidential between the individual and the security people. The aids that have come with this system have been effective.




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