New high-tech airport imagers -- common sense to keep us safe or unacceptable invasion of privacy?

A new breed of high tech scanners using low-level backscatter X-ray or high-frequency millimeter wave RF technology are able to detect even bombs like the Christmas underpants bomber had strapped to his loins. But they literally show everything. They give screeners a view even more comprehensive than a strip-search provides. Even breast implants and internal medical implants are visible.

Currently, airports are limited in their ability to use such machines because the US House of Representatives, responding to privacy advocates, placed severe limits on their use. When it comes right down to it, which is preferable to you? Would you rather preserve your privacy at the risk of getting killed by a suicide terrorist, or let the TSA see what you’ve got but be secure knowing they can see what bombers have too?