Smile pretty for the camera

Starting this week, the TSA is implementing full body xrays at JFK. I guess this means everyone will have to leave their drugs in NYC. It kind of takes the fun out of wearing pretty underwear for TSA guards, though. Now they're going to know I wear a push up bra.

A millimeter wave image looks like a fuzzy photo negative of a person, and is created when electromagnetic waves are reflected from the body. X-ray backscatter technology uses a narrow, low intensity X-ray beam, scanned over the body's surface at high speed.

For both technologies, the image created shows concealed items including weapons, explosives and other metallic and non-metallic threat items. For privacy reasons, the officer attending the passenger will not view the image. Additionally, the officer viewing the image will be remotely located and unable to associate the image with the passenger being screened. Once viewed remotely, the image will not be stored, transmitted or printed.