The Transportation Security Administration says its techies have failed to create software that would allow passengers to appears less naked when going through scanners, so it is removing the devices. You do realize that those nice people in Transportation Security Administration uniforms have been examining your naked body, don't you? You do realize that scanning machines arrived so swiftly in U. No, not that sort of cover-up. The TSA has decided that it's had enough of staring at your denuded selves -- perhaps we're not all such pretty sights -- and it is therefore removing the scanners. Bloomberg offers that no matter how hard it tried, OSI Systems , the company entrusted to write modesty-enhancing software, discovered it couldn't do it in time. Congress -- after objections from organizations such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center -- had asked OSI's Rapiscan to write software that would create more neutral images of compliant passengers.

An airport body scanner: image credit. Anyone flying from major UK airports in could be asked to undertake a full body scan. All scanning systems must use millimetre wave imaging technology to flag objects that could be concealed under clothing.

For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Staff would make fun of images from full-body scanners and target passengers from 12 countries, a former US airport security worker has alleged. A former US airport security worker has confirmed the suspicions of many fliers by admitting that staff will often laugh and gawk at the images of naked passengers that appear on full body scanners. In a candid confession for the website Politico , Jason Harrington, a Transportation Security Administration TSA officer from until , also alleged that passengers were — until — profiled based on their nationality, and said that he and fellow staff accept that many measures are unnecessary and ineffective.