I do not believe the TSA powers-that-be that no record of the scan is saved, and here is why:
1) Need it for evidence if someone is caught. That means they can save the image.
2) TSA thugs are perverts and criminals and downright sleazy (in DC anyway), and it would not be out of character for TSA thugs to crowd the screening room when they see some busty and shapely thing is about to be scanned, AND using their cell-phone camera to take a picture. No privacy assured, as they promise. Wanna bet how long before one of those cell-phone pictures ends up on the web?
3) Oh, and let’s not forget the unattractive or obese that are about to get scanned, those same TSA brain-dead perverts would be doing the same thing. . .taking pictures with their cell-phone.
TSA promises that no one can be individually identified, that the screener of the x-ray machine will not see the person, but that doesn’t mean the TSA perverts won’t scamper to see the person as that person walks through the scanner or as the person leaves.
TSA. . .what a bunch of nose-picking thugs from SE DC.
PROFILE!
Assume the worst case. You get scanned and your naked as a baby picture gets posted on Free Republic. Could it be worse than that?
Actually it could. You could get on an airplane with a 25 year old kid from Nebraska who got converted to Islam and decided to go for the 72 virgins while on your flight. You can profile forever and not see this guy coming.
(No offense to anyone from Nebraska. Actually the kid could have been from Iowa.)
I'll take the naked on FR route every time.
So no famous people would dare fly regular airlines any more.
See how El AL does it on post # 276