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by leesalminen 3383 days ago
Couldn't the TSA agent viewing these images take a picture with their smartphone? That's just off the top of my head.

I'm more curious about any research into health effects of millimeter wave scans? My business partner always opts out claiming this but could never provide evidence.

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There is nothing definitive, but in 2006 people thought there might be:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1673553/?reload=true&tp=...

I haven't heard of any conclusive evidence that it doesn't harm either (and how could there be one, since they haven't been used for that long), but why take the risk in the first place