The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the people who have tormented us and confiscated our nailclippers since 9/11, have announced some good news: Airport scanners will no longer make an image of our naked bodies, and will instead “auto-detect items that could pose a potential threat” and show the locations of these items “on a generic, computer-generated outline of a person.” Moreover, TSA says, “Passengers are able to view the same outline that the TSA officer sees.”
Pretty good. Maybe the technology and software have been adapted because the producers feared the full-naked scans would depress sales of their zillion-dollar machines. But at least TSA has agreed to eliminate this particular humiliation.