The airport scanner with their own things too exposed body image will soon disappear.
Transportation security administration said, using low doses of X ray scanner, because the company 6 month will disappear, that they can't repair privacy issues. Other airport body scanners, so as to produce a naked image, rather than a general outline, stay.
Government has strengthened its use whole body scanner, and the flight to Detroit on Christmas day, in 2009 years, a person quietly explosive.
At first, the two types of scanner display passenger naked. The idea is, security researchers found that two metal objects, such as a gun, and non-metallic items, such as plastic powder. The scanner showed that passengers body every detail.
TSA defense scanner, said can't store image, only to see security personnel no interaction of passengers. However, scanning still raises privacy concerns. Congress ordered, scanner produce a more general image or June to remove.
Rapiscan on Thursday, and manufacture of X-ray, or reverse scattering, scanners, admit, it will not be able to meet at the end of June before. TSA said, it eventually its Rapiscan software contract.
The agency's statement also said, passengers through the rest of the scanner will move more quickly, which means faster lane at the airport. The scanner, the L - 3 communications company, with the millimeter wave image. The company to come up with a naked image, passenger body no longer production software.
They have become accustomed to now 30 airport, TSA, will delete all 174 backscattering scanner. Another 76 in storage. It has 669 machine, it is to keep the millimeter wave, plus more than sixty options, TSA spokesman David Castelveter said.
Not all the machines will be replaced. Castelveter said, now there are some airports backscattering scanner will return to the metal detector. This is most of the airport by using the scanner are introduced.
RAPISCAN scanner on the road for a few months, slow motion.
The government didn't buy any since 2011. It quietly delete the seven main airport in October, including New York's laguardia airport, and Kennedy airport, Chicago Mr Hale, Los Angeles international airport. , TSA puts forward a few X ray scanner, very small airport. At that time, the agency said, because switch millimeter wave scanner through faster mobile passengers.
RAPISCAN parent OSI Systems company said, this will help TSA scanner move to other government agencies. It has not been decided yet, they will go to where, Alan Edrick, the chief financial officer OSI, when accepting a reporter to interview.
Scanner is usually used in jail or in the military base privacy is not a problem.
"There are quite a number of institutions will have a big interest" scanners, Edrick said.
OSI is a one-time fee of $2.7 million to pay for money in the software development of image blur, mobile machine's airport, Edrick said.
High-profile contract, change the software of the scanner, this agreement in the November published "cause" letter company, it counterfeit detection data, the company denied charges. Said on Thursday, finally the solution of the problem requires the approval of the department of homeland security by the United States.
The agreement this agreement is OSI system will be clear signs, by the agency of the proposed problem, Roth Capital Partners analyst Jeff Martin wrote: last Friday. OSI shares rose $2.37, or 3.5%, to close at $70.02.
In addition to headquarters in California's decline, hawthorne, TSA scanner OS I system used in other countries, as well as the other passengers scanner baggage scanner and medical scanners.
 
 



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