Travelers Share Thoughts on Body Scanners

Scott McCartney's weekly "The Middle Seat" column in The Wall Street Journal is always informative, but I specifically enjoyed this week's as it reviewed traveler feedback over the body scanning machines, that have been around for about six months now, as there was a big push to deploy the technology after the attempted Christmas Day bombing. So far, there are about 80 machines at 27 airports. There is a goal to have 450 rolled out by years' end.

So far the TSA has received 600 comments on the machines. Even if we assume those are all complaints, that's only 0.015% of passengers who have used them. For all the media attention the scanners received, not really a whole lot.

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