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Of course, this technology isn’t quite new, and as with many things this roll out started before COVID. Here is another article from 2018 explaining the tech as essentially a “hospital CT scanner, with bags replacing bodies.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/tourism/TSA-tests-scanners-that-allow-travelers-to-keep-electronics-and-liquids-in-their-bags-when-going-through-airport-security_170855829/

The next place these are to be used is in the postal service, with the ostensible purpose of detecting narcotics. The 3D scans are detailed enough to create “images based on the scanned item’s features and physical properties, such as density” and can “decipher between heroin and other opioids verses household items such as baking soda or powdered coffee creamers” and “can scan entire bags as well as individual items. The image is high-resolution, capable of detecting each hole in a small salt shaker.” The roll out begins first quarter 2021 and the company is in talks with Australia and New Zealand.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/new-3d-x-ray-scanner-helps-intercept-addictive-drugs-mailed-to-the-u-s/ar-BB1aymrT

Now for some speculation, if this tech can differentiate based on density, surely it can tell the difference between say ink and paper? Combine this with OCR software that can create digital text from an image, and it becomes feasible that all hand written mail gets scanned, digitized, and possibly sent to those NSA data servers in Utah where it is “read” by an AI. Now even “physical analogue” alternatives cannot escape the Data Beast.

And now for a fully transhumanist angle, here is a recent article explaining all the reasons for why “We Should 3D Scan People” and the solution to any downsides is to simply “to take the NSA approach to full-body scanning.”

We Should 3D Scan People

All for our “convenience” and “safety.” Ugh. I wonder if the Amish are looking for converts…