> I just don't get the deal with the millimeter wave scanners. Did everyone raise a fuss like this when airports had you walk through metal detectors? When met

> I just don't get the deal with the millimeter wave scanners. Did everyone raise a fuss like this when airports had you walk through metal detectors? When metal detectors were introduced, they weren't sensitive enough to pick up the change in your pocket. They were only sensitive enough to pick up large metal objects. This meant that to start off with, you didn't have to empty your pockets to go through, and the average passenger was almost totally unaffected by them. That frog was slowly boiled, and now we take off our shoes. We were also pretty certain back then that the way metal detectors worked had no health implications. There was simply no danger attached to being near one, nor was it even slightly suspected. > I don't see anyone raise a fuss when you have to walk through a metal detector to get into the local Barnes and Noble... That's not a metal detector, except in the loosest sense.