This is great news! They have an official reason for it, but I suspect the real reason has more to do with public pressure and wanting to avoid lawsuits from those things giving airport employees cancer. The backscatters scanners are to be replaced by June 2013 with new ones that do not emit ionizing radiation or show the details of your physique. They just make you look like a gingerbread man. TrutherGirls Fan T-shirts available at http:..thetruthergirls.spreadshirt.com links for video www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/tsa-abandons-nude-scanners/ www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/rapiscan-fraudulent-tests/ nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/12/gun_airplane.html hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/03/07/engineer-exposes-blind-spot-in-tsa-scanners-smuggles-metal-through-security/ www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/tsa-investigation-cancer-risk-x-ray-body-scanners www.infowars.com/optout/ www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/11774-theft-pedophilia-murder-among-tsa-employees%E2%80%99-crimes www.infowars.com/pop-culture-icon-rihanna-put-through-tsa-naked-body-scanner-in-show-of-power/ www.newser.com/story/159918/tsa-agents-laugh-at-nude-images.html www.nydailynews.com/news/national/feds-admit-stored-body-scanner-images-tsa-claim-images-saved-article-1.200279 www.newsrealblog.com/2010/12/02/1-25/ www.newser.com/story/121964/tsa-makes-elderly-woman-remove-adult-diaper.html www.nbcnews.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-news/t/tsa-pat-down-leaves-traveler-covered-urine/#.UQlan78707k dailycaller.com/2011/04/28/former-miss-usa-tsa-agent-touched-my-vagina/ www.nydailynews.com/new-york/tsa-apologizes-elderly-women-strip-search-kennedy-airport-article-1.1007725