Re:TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
by mffnbs on Sunday June 02, 2019 @05:42AM
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> That seems like a weird reason since the radiation counter argument was typically countered by pointing out the radiation from the flight itself likely exceeded the scan by a lot.
Doctors often advise pregnant women not to fly at certain stages of their pregnancy.
I can't imagine a doctor would advise pregnant women to enter these security theaters for literally no reason.
Re:TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
by jobigoud on Sunday June 02, 2019 @12:05PM
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> Doctors often advise pregnant women not to fly at certain stages of their pregnancy.
More likely related to turbulences and avoiding entering labor while on a flight and difficulty using the seat belt.
This is likely about as safe as wifi. The paper someone linked describes a system using around 24-30 GHz microwaves, one of the company blogs says the power they transmit at those frequencies is even less than a typical router. This isn't unusual. You can see a list of over 800 FCC approved devices in that frequency range here: https://fccid.io/frequency-explorer.php?lower=24000&upper=30... (I also didn't see anything there for Liberty Defense, the company suspects they'll have a product ready by 2020 but we'll see. Radar and imaging applications are tricky, this company could implode beforehand.)