[Ben Krasnow] built his own version of the TSA’s body scanner. The device works by firing a beam of x-rays at at target. Some of the beam will go through the target, some will be absorbed by the ...

The recent deployment of backscatter scanning devices meant for airline passengers has caused controversies focused on both the privacy issues of the scans and the safety of the devices themselves ...

We've all seen, if not in person, that at least in a movie or another, how x-ray body scanners work. What kept most of us comfortable up until now was the fact that, in order to get scanned, you had ...

MSNBC.COM - Millions of fliers pass through them, but scientific experts are still at odds about the safety of full-body airport scanners that use an X-ray technology called backscatter. The machines ...

As millions of American travelers take to the airways this Thanksgiving, they will increasingly face the new generation of full-body scanners at airport security — including the kind that Europe just ...

The Transportation Security Administration has begun to use whole-body imaging scanners as a primary screening measure on travelers passing through airport security checkpoints. One type of scanner ...

The first full body scanners were installed in the U.S. in 2007 and are used in 29 airports across the country. By late summer, travelers flying out of Spokane International Airport may be more ...

The controversy over airport body scanners - and how safe they are - is taking on new urgency after European authorities this month banned the machines after studies linked them to a small number of ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun to use whole-body imaging scanners as a primary screening measure on travelers passing through airport security checkpoints ...

The “peepshow” scanners that have caused an uproar at airports are finally getting the heave-ho. It took more than two years of passenger complaints, but the Transportation Security Administration ...