FOXNews.com: TSA to remove controversial x-ray scanners

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TSA to remove controversial x-ray scanners Jan 18th 2013, 19:13 Published January 18, 2013 Associated Press The Transportation Security Administration is set to pull more than 100 of its controversial body-scanning machines from airports across the U.S.AP The Transportation Security Administration confirms that it is getting rid of airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers. Right now the TSA uses two types of scanners. One makes a generic image showing where agents should look for an object on the traveler's body. Those scanners are staying. The other kind of scanner uses X-rays. They raised privacy concerns because they show metal objects on the traveler's body — along with every other detail, too. Congress has mandated that those scanners be changed or removed by June. TSA says the X-ray scanners will be gone by June. It says the company that makes them, Rapiscan, was not able to come up with a software fix to make the scanners comply with the Congressional mandate.

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