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No. Low dose x-ray equipment does not harm credit card data.
Airport security equipment uses low-dose/low-energy X-rays; it cannot change magnetic data (digital information encoded on the strip).
X-rays are light, they are photons. In a rainbow, the spectrum of all visible light (and beyond) is spread out. X-rays also have a spectrum, a variety of possible energies, so X-rays are not all the same.
This is not a concern with airport secutiry equipment, which does its job very well at tiny power levels.
Their side effect is "direct" in that they ionize electrons, which may sometimes "decouple" or break chemical bonds in molecules that directly stop them. Breaking a few chemical bonds in a credit card will not erase the magnetic data. And the bit of heating that accompanies an x-ray is not detectable by anything but the most sensitive laboratory equipment.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 13y agoNot DVD's - but they can destroy video tape (like those in camcorders) and audio tapes too. If you have any of those, you'd be better off taking them in your hand luggage so customs can examine them with out using x-rays.
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∙ 11y agoAs long as the dog isn't kept in there for too long, it should be fine. Airport security should take the dog out of its carrier before that carrier goes through, though. The dog should then be taken, in your arms, through the walk through scanner. They can also just use the handheld scanner.
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∙ 15y agoNO can hurt film depending on speed of film
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∙ 15y agoabsolutely not..they must be x-rayed or you can not take them.
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∙ 14y agoNo it can not, but they like you to separate them from their bag when going through the xray machine.
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∙ 12y agoThe X-ray itself will not, however the rubber belt that carries your device can
sometimes carry a static charge that can damage your device.
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