The Transportation Security Administration is removing full body scanners from New York’s airports and moving them to less busy airports.
LaGuardia and Kennedy airports are among a number of major airports where the backscatter technology machines are being removed.
They will be replaced with millimeter wave machines that produce a more generic outline of a person’s body, compared to the more specific backscatter image.
The agency says the decision was made to speed up security checkpoints.
The TSA says which smaller airports will get the backscatter scanners is still to be determined.
(AP)
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another 5 billion tax payer dollars in the garbage can, not a big deal because at least the company who makes these machines is a big Obama supporter
How much did each machine & training for staff cost? How much does it cost to remove them & reassign the TSA staff? The whole thing is a disaster and a colossal waste of money. MY money.