Now the US Transportation Security Administration wants to see what's underneath your underpants.
Details after the jump...
According to Yahoo! News, the TSA is installing peeping booths of patriotism in several US airports. These wondrous booths emit "millimeter waves" that penetrate passengers clothing in an attempt to detect what lies beneath.
Maybe bombs, maybe weapons but almost certainly genitalia.
While some of the more daring among us might not mind that sort of invasion, some of us have a few questions and concerns.
The ACLU addresses a few of them:
...passengers expecting privacy underneath their clothing "should not be required to display highly personal details of their bodies such as evidence of mastectomies, colostomy appliances, penile implants, catheter tubes and the size of their breasts or genitals as a pre-requisite to boarding a plane."
I mean seriously, like airline travel hasn't become degrading and humiliating enough. Now we get to get treat airport personnel to an impromptu peepshow. And all we get in return is a bag of peanuts...
Update: Lib Dem FoP states that the wondrous machines only pick up on waves the body naturally emits.