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TSA to remove ‘naked body’ scanners from all US airports

US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin removing all body scanner machines that show naked images of people.

US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin removing all body scanner machines that show naked images of people. The machines have caused a public outcry about privacy invasion. Rapiscan, which makes the backscatter airport body scanner machines, failed to meet a congressionally mandated deadline to upgrade the technology with software that protects individual privacy. New scanners show any suspect objects on a humanoid image rather than on a scan of a real human ...

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