Current Technology

Since June of this year there are currently 30 airports that are running a high tech TSA (Transportation Security Administration) approved screening system.  This system doesn't exactly provide the people with the degree of privacy that the MALINTENT machines would potentially give.  The system is called the TSA Backscatter or Body Imaging X-Ray, but for shorthand I am going to call it the Backscatter.  This technology uses most of the same common x-ray technologies by blasting millimeter wave lengths  to produce an image.  The person receiving the image is claimed to be seated in a different room( roughly 50-100 feet away) because the images that are produced are pictures of unclothed people.  To try and have a sense of privacy the person getting the images doesn't know who is being scanned and the security guards at the checkpoint next to the person being scanned do not get to see the images.  If a threat arrives, radio communication is used and the person is seized.  The problem with the privacy issue is that TSA and other security sections under the Department of Homeland Security have complete ability to print and save the pictures for further use of investigation. I feel like this might be a tiny invasion into privacy, even though the identity of the people being scanned are not revealed to the person in the office.