Not only do the virtual strip search machines probably pose a real risk of skin cancer for frequent flyers and really violate the privacy of passengers and the religion of many, but the enhanced "pat downs" pose some other potentially very serious risks if/since the TSA agents do not change gloves after handling the clothes, body, and hair of one passenger and then repeating the process on another.   The ACLU is trying to fight back against this health hazard.

Many diseases, parasites, etc., can be passed from one person to another by means of the vinyl gloves that the TSA uses to protect THEMSELVES.   Fungi, head lice, dandruff, and some infectious diseases can be transmitted this way.   No passenger should be forced to choose between exposure to radiation concentrated on the skin (not to mention having an image made of their whole naked body AND FACE) and being touched and prodded by the same gloves that were used on another passenger.