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TSA to junk naked body airport scanners

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The company is ending a contract with Rapiscan, which manufactures the scanners which produce a naked image of tourists who go through them. Privacy rights activists have actually complained that the scanners, initially presented in 2007, constitute a virtual strip search. The TSA plans to continue using a scanner that is thought about less intrusive, and which makes an universal image revealing where representatives ought to look for an item on the tourist 's body. The TSA states the X-ray scanners will be passed June because Rapiscan was not able to come up with a software fix to make the scanners comply with a Congressional directed that the scanners better protect passenger personal privacy. Opponents of full-body scanners argue that strip searches without probable cause break basic human rights.

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Sen. Susan Collins (r-Maine

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Organization: European Union

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Technology: X-ray

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The Transportation Security Administration confirms that it is getting rid of airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers.

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TSA to junk naked body airport scanners

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