New airport scanner leaves you feeling naked
April 7, 2000
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- If you have ever imagined that someone is looking right through you -- even undressing you -- you may be right, if you book international flights.
New scanners are revealing interesting images as they scan through your clothes, just to make sure you are not carrying contraband.
Congress, however, is being asked whether such devices violate a person's civil rights.
Watch Correspondent Mary Pflum's report.
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