US gateway to get new x-ray scanners

Boston, a popular US gateway from Europe, looks like getting new x-ray technology showing a “stick figure” instead of the controversial outline of a passenger’s assets according to a local newspaper.  In March the airport, called Logan International, became the first in the US to get the full body scanner.

“All you’ll have is stick figure and a little block around each anomaly on you,” George Naccara of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said of the new scanners due to arrive by late winter.

“For example,” Naccara said: “If I walk through the new machine……there would be a block around my cell phone……a block around my belt.  But there would not be a human image of me.”

Naccara said the newer scanners will speed up the scanning process because the “stick figure” image can be displayed right on the machine.  The images are viewed remotely by TSA crew who radio the checkpoint if they spot anything suspicious. www.tas.gov

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