<p>Passengers are scanned at a Terminal C security checkpoint at Logan Airport in Boston using a millimeter wave body scanner, which produces a cartoon-like outline rather than naked images of passengers produced by a similar machine using X-rays. The Transportation Security Administration is deploying more of the millimeter wave machines at seven major U.S. airports where the agency is removing all of the full-body X-ray scanners that have been criticized by privacy a…
October 26, 2012
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Less-invasive body scanners unveiled at some airports
CHICAGO (AP) - The federal government is quietly removing full-body X-ray scanners from seven major airports and replacing them with a different type of machine that produces a cartoon-like outline instead of the naked images that have been compared to a virtual strip search.