The Transportation Security Administration recently started using body scans on randomly chosen airline passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and New York's Kennedy airport.

Airports in Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas and Miami will be added this month. Reagan National Airport near Washington starts using a body scanner Friday.

"It's the wave of the future," said James Schear, the TSA security director at Baltimore-Washington International Airport...

The TSA says it protects privacy by blurring passengers' faces and deleting images right after viewing. Yet the images are detailed, clearly showing a person's gender. "You can actually see the sweat on someone's back," Schear said.

"Some of this stuff seems a little crazy," Reardon said, "but in this day and age, you have to go along with it."

EXTREMELY low resolution images of what the screener sees are on the TSA's website, which doesn't even render properly in Firefox. One suspects that bigger images aren't offered because the public would be shocked by them. I've seen TSA checkpoint people intentionally selecting attractive women for "additional screening" before. I suspect that this will be problematic.