print email comment close "Backscatter" X-ray Screening Technology URL: http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/ Description: Discussion of privacy concerns related to backscatter X-ray screening at airport security checkpoints, where "a passenger is scanned by rastering or moving a single high energy x-ray beam rapidly over their form. The signal strength of detected backscattered x-rays from a known position then allows a highly realistic image to be reconstructed." Includes links to news stories and websites. From the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a research center focusing on civil liberties issues. Publisher: Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Extra Keywords back scatter LII Database Information: Record 23408 created by Jennifer English on 02/26/2007 Last modification on 04/04/2008 Published: 02/28/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23408