If you've flown recently, you may have seen them: new scanning booths that produce full-body images of airline passengers in order to detect hidden weapons, liquids, narcotics and other contraband.
Sure, airport body scanners are looking for threats, but here’s what else these security devices might reveal in the process ...
(AP) – Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by ...
If you're pregnant and worried about the safety of those full-body scanners at the airport, you can rest easy. These scanners, which first emerged in US airports after the attempted terrorist attack ...
Before they were removed following an outcry over privacy, backscatter X-ray security scanners at airports also raised worries among some travelers and scientists about exposure to potentially harmful ...
CHICAGO — Just in time for holiday travel, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is receiving a new type of body scanner that should help speed up the lines at security checkpoints and that displays ...
The Transportation Security Administration will pull 174 full-body scanners from airports in the coming year, but not because of safety reasons or privacy invasion. The scanner manufacturer couldn’t ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CHICAGO • Just in time for holiday travel, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is receiving a new type of body scanner that ...
Early airport body scanners were far more revealing than most travellers realised. In the early 2010s, Rapiscan X-ray machines produced highly detailed, near-nude images that sparked outrage and were ...
The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can’t fix the privacy issues. The other airport body ...