Airport ‘Naked Image’ Scanners in U.S. May Get Privacy Upgrades

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Holli Powell, a Phoenix medical-software consultant who flies every week, says she avoids getting into airport security lines that end at what she calls a humiliating full-body scanner.

“Those scanners, I feel, are above and beyond,” Powell, 35, said in an interview. They generate “nearly naked images.”