posted by
Fnord666
on Sunday July 16 2017, @02:25AM
from the all-your-face-are-belong-to-us dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes:
"Congress allowed the government to scan faces of foreign nationals to keep track of visa overstays. But now that's set to be extendedto Americansworrying some privacy advocates."
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @04:19AM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday July 16 2017, @04:19AM (#539791)
It's not an irrational fear of cancer. When they give out the irradiation figures for those machines, they apply it to bodyweight and say it is a low dose, but the wavelength they use is all stopped within a millimetre or two of the surface of the skin. What would be a low dose spread oveer the whole body is actually a high dose for a small part of the body. And thats assuming that the machines are adjusted correctly - a big assumption when they are being run by semi-trained kiddie-groping monkeys.
If it's not x rays and really stopped by the skin then I'm not as worried. The skin is exposed to all sorts of cancer causing crap everyday. Sunlight, toxins, physical trauma. Skin cancer detection and survival rates are better than many internal cancers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @04:19AM (2 children)
It's not an irrational fear of cancer. When they give out the irradiation figures for those machines, they apply it to bodyweight and say it is a low dose, but the wavelength they use is all stopped within a millimetre or two of the surface of the skin. What would be a low dose spread oveer the whole body is actually a high dose for a small part of the body.
And thats assuming that the machines are adjusted correctly - a big assumption when they are being run by semi-trained kiddie-groping monkeys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:23AM (1 child)
Backscatter x-ray machines use x-rays... Millimeter wave scanners use lower frequencies which are less damaging assuming they only go 2 millimetres deep: https://www.propublica.org/special/scanning-the-scanners-a-side-by-side-comparison [propublica.org]
If it's not x rays and really stopped by the skin then I'm not as worried. The skin is exposed to all sorts of cancer causing crap everyday. Sunlight, toxins, physical trauma. Skin cancer detection and survival rates are better than many internal cancers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:54AM
NO! SOME skin cancers do. Melanoma, you're golden - it has ~98% survival in the USA! But there are LOTS of skin cancers which are > 80% mortal, too.