Truly bad ideas never die, in my opinion. So I wasn’t surprised to hear that, while the Transportation Security Administration says it is removing those much-reviled backscatter body-imaging scanners ...

This study was supported by Contract/Grant No. HSHQDC-11-D-00009 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Homeland Security. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The harshest critics labeled them “virtual strip searches.” Airport passenger screening that produced particularly realistic full-body images using backscatter technology.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The harshest critics labeled them “virtual strip searches.” Airport passenger screening that produced particularly realistic full-body images using backscatter technology. Others ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University have discovered several security vulnerabilities in full-body backscatter X ...

Airline passengers have already said bon voyage to the controversial backscatter x-ray security scanners, pulled from U.S. airports in 2013 over concerns about privacy and potential radiation risks.

Ben Krasnow is one of those people no one has a bad opinion of. He’s part of the team at Verily (Google’s Life Science Alphabit), where he’s busy curing cancer. He co-founded Valve’s hardware division ...

When most people tackle DIY projects related to airports, it’s usually some kind of over-the-top commercial airline simulator. But not Ben Krasnow He took a decidedly different approach by building ...

Although the machines have already been pulled from U.S. airports, the results of a report commissioned by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has found that the amount of ...

There's a new gun out there this week going by the name MINI Z, ready to bring Z Backscatter technology to a street near you. Using the same technology as you'll find in the full-scanning Z ...

Radiation from airport body scanners penetrates organs beneath the skin but at low doses that meet national standards, according to a study by Marquette University’s Department of Biomedical ...

Cover Image: A common scene at a fictional airport employing passenger screening using a backscatter X-ray machine. Artist: Erik Svedberg. Image created by ray tracing, where computational rays of ...