In the UK, "stripping" scanners for virtual fitting

The British company Bodymetrics has adapted the technology of scanning the human body through clothes in order to help visitors to online stores find clothes that will correspond to their sizes, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to The Financial Times.

The developers proceeded from the fact that for many, the "campaign to the online store" for food and various accessories has become a common occupation, but until recently, few decided to buy clothes on the network. Most users believe that such things may simply not be suitable without preliminary fitting and they will have to be returned back.

Scanners based on infrared motion sensors are already installed as an experiment in one of the American boutiques. The device completely scans the body of the buyer and, based on the data obtained, automatically selects it in the store in the store in size.

The company will also have the development of special webcams that can process accurate data on user sizes at home and order suitable clothing through the Internet.

Such scanners, nicknamed "stripping", allow you to get a detailed image of the body under clothing. They were invented to recognize the explosives under underwear, and the security department of the US transport (Transportation Security Administration (TSA) decided to introduce "stripping" scanners at the US airports after a citizen of Nigeria carried an explosive device on board the aircraft, hiding it under the underwear. Due to the problems in the design, the bomb did not explode, but the authorities considered a detailed scan of passengers the necessary measure to ensure flight safety. Then the same devices appeared at several large airports of Great Britain.

Many human rights activists believe that the mandatory inspection of air passengers with scanners, which can be seen by the whole body of a person, is an interference with private life, compare scanning with feeling and talk about moral discomfort and even children's pornography. According to them, the image that gives such a scanner is so "graphic" that it is essentially "virtual undressing." In addition, pilots and often flying passengers began to complain about the deterioration of health as a result of numerous scanning.

The indignation intensified when thousands of photographs received during scanning flowed on the Internet (TSA all the time claimed that the images fixed by devices could not be recorded and stored at all). TSA had to promise to make the scan results "less frank."

The most noticeable consequence of this scandal was a solitary protest against "stripping scanners." A girl who calls herself an employee of the sex industry and a sex blogger on November 21, 2010 at the Seattle Airport was exposed at the inspection point, demonstrating transparent underwear.

A certain American inventor Jeff Basque, who promptly invented, patented and put on sale, did not miss the opportunity to earn the opportunity to earn the possibility of earnings.

In Bodymetrics, as the British newspaper notes, apparently prepared in advance for similar accusations and persistently explains: the waves emitted by scanners are thousands of times weaker than that of mobile devices, and the collected data will never be able to turn into an visible image, as the set of numerical parameters in which the size of the scanned is encrypted.