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Boston's Logan Will Get G-Rated Scanners

They will show stick figures instead of detailed images

By ChrisBalogh,  Newser User

Posted Nov 18, 2010 3:53 PM CST | Promoted on Newser Nov 18, 2010 7:14 PM CST

(User Submitted) – Boston's Logan airport will be the nation's first to receive scanners that show a stick figure passenger instead of the X-rated "baggage" that has created so much controversy. “All you’ll have is stick figure and a little block around each anomaly on you," a TSA official tells the Boston Herald, explaining that an "anomaly" might be a cell phone or a belt. "But there would not be a human image of me.”


He says the devices will be more efficient—because images are seen directly on the scanner instead of being viewed remotely—and “remove the whole privacy debate." They should be in place next year. The full-body scanners have caused rebellion among travelers' groups, even prompting one to call for a “National Opt-Out Day” on the busiest travel day of the year, Thanksgiving Eve. Click here for that story.

File photo of full-body scanner. Front-line scanners at Boston's Logan airport will see only stick figures with a new machine.
File photo of full-body scanner. Front-line scanners at Boston's Logan airport will see only stick figures with a new machine.   (AP)
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COMMENTS
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Swen.Ardere
Nov 20, 2010 1:11 PM CST
Americans are such prudes. The guy who doesn't want his privates viewed on a monitor probably has a micropenis. And the 60 yr old woman who claims she is "modest" is too fucking stupid to understand that nobody wants to see her tits sagging to her belly button...they are just doing their job.
mark w
Nov 19, 2010 5:21 AM CST
Don,t even have to use scanners or the frisking groping stuff use a DOG they can tell if people have anything on them and faster
Ucantusethatname
Nov 19, 2010 2:49 AM CST
Opt out every day until TSA bends over, grabs its ears, and pulls hard.

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