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>It is completely safe and the vast majority use a generic image that completely addresses privacy concerns.

Well that makes me feel great. Guess they decided they been caught blatantly lying on that point before so they decided to reiterate it, just with sufficiently vague qualifiers.



"Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field"

Isn't it 30% effective in auditor tests.... oh wait you have a post that claims 30% is inaccurate but doesn't actually disprove the figure or provide accurate figures: http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/12/70-detection-failure-rate-being....


"Vast majority", eh? Yeah, I guess the "vast majority" aren't the young, attractive women you always hear about them disproportionately scanning.


Is this the case? It's not terribly surprising, I just hadn't seen stats for that.




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