3D body scanning technology: Privacy and ethical issues

Recently, 3D body scanning technology has been deployed in many airports around the world for security purposes and in many other places for research, health care and apparel industry purposes. However, the accuracy of the images of the human body that these scanners produce has raised privacy and ethical issues among researchers and the general public. Many questions about whether and how these scanners violate privacy have been raised. In this paper, privacy and ethical issues surrounding 3D body scanning technology are discussed and reviewed, as well as the question of how can we utilize this scanning technology without compromising our privacy. In addition, this paper higlights the usfullness of 3D body scanning in the clothing industry, as this is an emerging market for efficient data collection for better-fitting clothing, and reviews the issues of violating privacy when conducting anthropometric surveys.