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Congress

TSA Says Its Body Scanners All Equipped With Privacy Software

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, May 31st, 2013

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week notified Congress that it would not extend a deadline that expires today for equipping and deploying privacy filtering software on the body scanning systems installed at airports in the United States. John Pistole, the TSA administrator, said in a May 24 letter to the House Homeland Security Committee leadership that as of May 16, all of the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units deployed by the agency are equipped with the Automated Target Recognition…

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Army

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Army

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