It's a real stretch trying to make this about "Accounting Technology" but I'm going to try. Some practicing
accountants fly a lot for business -- I'll end 2010 with just under 125,000 miles in the air. Others of us will travel during the upcoming holiday season and many more on their "post busy-season" vacations. So I just wanted to give you a heads up. The TSA has installed over 400 "advanced imaging technology devices", i.e. body-scanners, at 69 different airports. These devices have gathered a lot of media attention in the past few months – most of it negative and pure nonsense. I don’t want to be a TSA apologist but, as they say in South Dakota, “there’s nothing quite as pesky as a FACT” --- and the FACTS are that a single scan using backscatter technology produces exposure equivalent to two minutes of flying on an airplane, and the energy projected by the millimeter wave technology is thousands of times less than a cell phone transmission. Oh, and I really don’t think anyone is scheming to look at me naked! (smile).
Travel safely!
gll
Here’s a list of their locations:
Airports who currently have imaging technology:
- Albuquerque International Sunport Airport
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- Baltimore/Washington International Airport
- Boston Logan International
- Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport
- Boise Airport
- Bradley International Airport
- Brownsville
- Buffalo Niagara International Airport
- Charlotte Douglas International
- Chicago O'Hare International
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International
- Cleveland International Airport
- Corpus Christie Airport
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
- Denver International Airport
- Detroit Metro Airport
- Dulles International Airport
- El Paso International Airport
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International
- Fort Wayne International Airport
- Fresno Airport
- Gulfport International Airport
- Grand Rapids Airport
- Harrisburg International Airport
- Harlingen/Valley International Airport
- Honolulu International Airport
- Indianapolis International Airport
- Jacksonville International Airport
- John F. Kennedy International Airport
- Kansas City International
- LaGuardia International Airport
- Lambert/St. Louis International Airport
- Laredo International Airport
- Lihue Airport
- Los Angeles International
- Luis Munoz Marin International Airport
- McAllen Miller Airport
- McCarran International Airport
- Memphis International Airport
- Miami International Airport
- General Mitchell Milwaukee International Airport
- Mineta San José International
- Minneapolis/St.Paul International Airport
- Nashville International Airport
- Newark Liberty International Airport
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- Oakland International Airport
- Omaha Eppley Field Airport
- Orlando International Airport
- Palm Beach International Airport
- Philadelphia International Airport
- Phoenix International Airport
- Pittsburgh International Airport
- Port Columbus International
- Raleigh-Durham International Airport
- Richmond International Airport
- Rochester International Airport
- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
- Salt Lake City International Airport
- San Antonio International Airport
- San Diego International Airport
- San Francisco International Airport
- Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
- Spokane International Airport
- T.F. Green Airport
- Tampa International Airport
- Tulsa International Airport
- Chicago Midway International Airport
- Houston William P. Hobby Airport
- Saipan International Airport
Other locations:
- Colorado Springs Court House (CO)
- Cook County Court House (IL)
- Department of Corrections facility (PA)
- Douglas County Colorado Justice Center
- Montana State Prison
- Utah State Correctional Facility
I'd that San Fran Int'l is listed here, as they claim to use MMW. Can anyone tell me for sure whether SFO uses MMW and whether IND uses backscatter? These are the ports I'll visit this Christmas.
Posted by: Michael | December 04, 2010 at 05:38 PM