I recently read this piece of news from CNN. Apparently, there’s a 
new type of device that authorities are using right now that can actually see through an entire crowd’s clothes! It can detect objects hidden in your clothes and may prevent any dastardly plots. Before the wrong kind of crowd gets too excited, the device can’t see the actual detail of the person’s body, just what objects they may be hiding, you pervert.
I’m not sure whether to be happy or angry. On one hand we have an effective tool to possibly stop terrorist attacks before they happen. On the other hand, this is indeed a massive violation of privacy. Is this a tool to make us all feel safer or a tool to further control and manipulate us? I want to believe it’s for the good of all, I really do. However, we can’t just ignore the possibility that our fear is being used to control us into accepting these kinds of devices.
As a woman, privacy is important to me. So is safety. Thus, my quandary. It’s in the hands of those in power now whether this piece of technology will be used for good or bad.
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Hi, yes, I too read about it. its the same technology used in astronomy, some terahertz camera
and even before this, there were/are x-ray machines to be used in certain airports and also during one of these high-security days. And, this is not much different from it, except for that fact that, x-rays don’t penetrate bones and here, it cant with water. I endorse it, but certainly not closed to the arguments with people who feel violated.
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