{"id":107904,"date":"2020-05-30T20:08:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/tsa-says-an-airport-full-body-scanner-must-add-a-filter-to-protect-travelers-privacy"},"modified":"2020-05-30T20:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:08:59","slug":"tsa-says-an-airport-full-body-scanner-must-add-a-filter-to-protect-travelers-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/tsa-says-an-airport-full-body-scanner-must-add-a-filter-to-protect-travelers-privacy","title":{"rendered":"TSA says an airport full-body scanner must add a filter to protect travelers\u2019 privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tsa-says-an-airport-full-body-scanner-must-add-a-filter-to-protect-travelers-privacy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A full-body scanner that the Transportation Security Administration hopes can speed up airport security checkpoints must go back to the drawing board for software to protect the privacy of travelers being scanned.<\/p>\n<p>The scanner, built by British firm Thruvision, was promoted as being able to simultaneously screen multiple airport passengers from a distance of up to 25 feet away. The TSA began trying out the device last year at an Arlington, Va., testing facility before planning to use it on a trial basis at U.S. airports.<\/p>\n<p>But now the federal agency is requiring the scanner to add a \u201cprivacy filter\u201d before the TSA can test the scanner \u201cin a live environment,\u201d according to a TSA document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 A full-body scanner that the Transportation Security Administration hopes can speed up airport security checkpoints must go back to the drawing board for software to protect the privacy of travelers being scanned. The scanner, built by British firm Thruvision, was promoted as being able to simultaneously screen multiple airport passengers from a distance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}