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A Few Facts About TSA's Full-Body Scanners

How the Transportation Security Administration explains its two full-body scanners: Backscatter technology projects an ionizing X-ray beam over the body surface at high speed. The reflection, or "backscatter," of the beam is detected, digitized and displayed on a monitor. Each full body scan produces less than 10...

Expert: Scanner Training More Intense Outside of US

The full-body scanners have either been deployed, or are being seriously considered for use, in Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Nigeria, India, South Africa and most of the European Union. In those countries, the personnel are extensively trained and understand radiation, how the X-ray devices...

AOL Investigation: No Proof TSA Scanners Are Safe

If you believe the government, you have little to worry about from the radiation beam flitting over the front and back of your body in airport watchdogs' search for explosives and other hidden implements of terror this holiday season. The Transportation Security Administration says that when working properly, the...

Travelers Opt Out of 'National Opt-Out Day'

NEW YORK (Nov. 24) -- "National Opt-Out Day" was a bust. Thanksgiving travelers greeted body scanners with open arms -- and bare feet -- at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport today, in an anti-climactic end to weeks of speculation over whether Americans would use the busiest travel day of the year to express...