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 June because the company that makes them can’t  fix the privacy issues. The other airport body scanners, which produce a generic  outline instead of a naked image, are staying.

The government rapidly stepped up its use of body scanners after a man snuck  explosives onto a flight bound for Detroit on Christmas day in 2009.

At first, both types of scanners showed travelers naked. The idea was that  security workers could spot both metallic objects like guns as well as  non-metallic items such as plastic explosives. The scanners also showed every  other detail of the passenger’s body, too.

 

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