Because of the Christmas Day bomb plot, though, Chaffetz predicted that the Senate would kill his bill. Still, he stands by his proposal. “We don’t need to overreact” when it comes to balancing security and the need for privacy, he said.
Members of the Electronic Privacy Information Center also say the machines see too much. A week before Flight 253 took off from Amsterdam, the group filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking information about use of the scanners. It said the machines used at airports and federal courthouses were the equivalent of “digital strip searches” because they “capture images of individuals stripped naked.”
But those on the better-safe-than-sorry side say they’d happily submit to an electronic “strip tease” if it would help get them safely to their destination.

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