On: Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe

[pavel_lishin]

> The TSA agent told me, "you know these are completely safe and no human sees the pictures anymore, right?"

Wouldn't the obvious response be, "If nobody sees the results of the detector, why are we walking through it?"

[kiiski → pavel_lishin]

Surely the software can detect anything strange just as well as (or better than) a human could.

[koenigdavidmj → kiiski]

I'm thinking that you are a bit overconfident in the state of computer vision software.

[VladRussian → kiiski]

yep, TSA scanners (i mean machines) swapping funny pictures on Facebook. Turing would be proud.