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LAX Readies 'Strip Search' Scans

'Total body imaging' devices look under clothes for weapons

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 18, 2008 9:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – New technology will allow screeners at Los Angeles International Airport to scan passengers with a device that effectively looks beneath their clothes, the LA Times reports. The “whole body imaging” machines are drawing mixed reviews—a TSA spokesman praised the "brand-new security tool,...   Read full story »

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