MSNBC:
TSA: New scanner software will protect passenger privacy
By Rebecca Ruiz, Senior editor, msnbc.com
The Transportation Security Administration announced today that it is going to improve the privacy of full-body scanners by installing software that does not create passenger-specific images.
Instead, screeners will see a generic outline of the body on a monitor attached to the scanner. The software will auto-detect metallic and non-metallic concealed items.
Known as Automated Target Recognition (ATR), the software will be installed in the coming months on millimeter-wave scanners, which use electromagnetic waves to produce an image of the body. Of the 488 full-body scanners in airports nationwide, 241 are millimeter-wave and 247 are backscatter, which use low-level radiation beams to create an image of the body.
“This software upgrade enables us to continue providing a high level of security through advanced imaging technology screening, while improving the passenger experience at checkpoints,” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a statement issued by the agency.
Since the enhanced privacy allows the screener to review the image at the checkpoint instead of in a separate room, as is currently done, the TSA expects the scanning process to be more efficient.
The TSA said that the software was tested in February at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, Las Vegas McCarran International and Ronald Reagan Washington National airports. The agency plans to test the software on backscatter machines in the fall.
Last week, a U.S. appeals court Friday upheld the use of the controversial machines, but said the TSA should have sought public comment before installing them at airports.
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1 comment:
Along with a special alert for large or small schvantzes.
WHERE IS THE IMAGE, DOUCHE BAGS?
There has to be an original image, and you can bet KATE UPTON'S WILL BE HACKED OUT, WITHOUT TOO MUCH TROUBLE.
Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining.
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