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'Baywatch' Beauty Feels Overexposed After TSA Scan

(Dec. 6) -- A former "Baywatch" beauty is feeling overexposed after going through what she says was a humiliating body scan by Transportation Security Administration agents at Los Angeles International Airport. Donna D'Errico, who was the Playboy Playmate in September 1995, says she got a few leers along with the scan and...

TSA Chief Says No Change in Airport Scanners, Pat-Downs

(Nov. 17) -- Faced with a barrage of questions about new airline screening procedures, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said today there would be no changes in the use of full-body scans and pat-downs for passengers. Administrator John Pistole acknowledged at a congressional hearing that the new...

Airline Pilots Urged to Boycott Body Scanners

(Nov. 9) -- The world's largest independent union of pilots, the Allied Pilots Association, is telling its members to boycott body scanners at airports due radiation exposure. Pilots and regular passengers have the option of refusing to enter the scanner, referred to as Advanced Imaging Technology scanners (AIT), and...

Full-Body Security Scanners: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You

(July 21) -- Modesty and air travel are two concepts that appear to be mutually exclusive these days, thanks to an increasing level of scrutiny at the security checkpoint. Exhibit A: the controversial full-body scanner, likely coming soon to an airport near you. In the U.S., 142 are currently in operation at 41 airports,...

Background on advanced imaging technology

A full-body scanner is a device that creates an image of a person's naked body through their clothing to look for hidden objects without physically removing their clothes or making physical contact.

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