Last January the Canadian government said that full screen body scanners would be installed in almost every Canadian airport. The scanners are used to further test and see what people are hiding. For people that are subjected to this further scan have two options either they can receive the full screen body scan which scans and casts a full screen 3D portrait of the persons naked body or they can receive a full pat down from officers on guard. The reason that these are in place is because last year during Christmas on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit a bomber tried to set off a bomb, his attempt was unsuccessful but Canadian and American security measures are being bumped up to prevent security threats like these. Many people have concerns about the scanner and the pat-down, many people are worried about being scanned due to radiation and many people do not like the pat-down because they feel it is invading. The radiation has been tested and it is much less than what you would receive on your average chest xray meaning that you would have to enter the body scanner alot of times in order to receive the same amount of radiation you do in a chest x-ray. Another worry people have is that the image of their body might be saved or brodcasted, the manufactures of the body scanner guarantee that after the scan is done and viewed it cannot be re-viewed.
In my opinion there are two different views you could have you could look at this and say it is an invasion of privacy and that the pat-down is and should be considered sexual assault or you can look at it the way I look at it. I look at the body scanner and feel more secure I feel that when i am flying I am one hundred percent sure that there will be no threats of any kind. I believe that airport security isn't there to be perverted and look at your body when you go through the scanner I believe that it is an extra safety precaution preventing any civilian casualties and plane crashes. Sure there is a safety precaution of whether these things are safe but it is proven that you would have to use the body scanners over 100 times to receive the same amount of radiation you would for a single flight across Canada and it would take you over 100 flights across Canada to receive the same amount of radiation as a chest scan. For these reasons I believe that body scanners are good for airports and should be installed.
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