I urge you to help introduce a Senate version of H.Amdt. 172, which would
prohibit the Transportation Security Administration from using whole-body
scanners as a primary means of searching passengers at airports, and would
give passengers the option of refusing whole-body imaging.  The amendment
would also prohibit storage, transfer, or copying of the images produced
by this technology.

In addition to the privacy concerns associated with producing a nude image of
every passenger, in the absence of any suspicion of wrongdoing - a policy that
would have been unthinkable even a decade ago - the ionising radiation used in
these devices is capable of penetrating slightly into the skin and could
slightly increase the risk of cancer.  The number of additional cancer deaths
would be small, but not zero.  Are we willing to have ten randomly selected
passengers die from cancer over these next decades, when alternative,
lower-tech methods exist which are safer and less invasive?