While I still think the entire TSA, and perhaps the Department of Homeland Security, should be scrapped,
this is a tiny positive move:
The agency is ending a contract with Rapiscan Systems, which
manufactures the scanners which produce a naked image of travelers who
pass through them. Privacy rights activists have complained that the
scanners, first rolled out in 2007, constitute a virtual strip search.
The TSA plans to continue using a scanner that is considered less
invasive, and which makes a generic image that has been likened to a
cartoon, or stick figure, yet highlights potential foreign objects on
the traveler's body.
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