Boston’s Logan International Airport will soon welcome a new addition to the security screening lines: X-ray screening machines. The Boston Globe is reporting that Logan Airport will receive two of the new scanning machines by October.
The Transportation Security Administration introduced the new X-ray machines earlier this year at Atlanta International Airport.
The X-ray machines — a millimeter wave machine and a backscatter — create outlines and holograms of passengers without their clothes. The purpose, says the TSA, is to help speed up the screening process at security. The images taken from these new machines will help screeners detect any forbidden items.
The new security machines have created some privacy concerns, but the TSA promises no one will see the images except for trained security agents. According to the TSA, the scans will be deleted within about 12 seconds. Read more from The Boston Globe.
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