Vancouverites to serve as guinea pigs for new security screening technology

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Category: Canada News
Published Monday, April 15, 2019
CBC News

Fans attending Vancouver Canucks games or other events at Rogers Arena will be among the first members of the public to be screened using new radio frequency wave devices intended to detect concealed weapons.

Liberty Defense, the Georgia company behind the so-called Hexwave device, is planning to test its product — which is still in development — later this year or early next year.

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