Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images

A Transportation Security Administration employee demonstrates the Backscatter advanced imaging technology scan currently in testing at the TSA Systems Integration Facility in Arlington, Virginia, U.S.

The Transportation Security Administration announced it has finished removing from all airports the X-ray technology that produced graphic and controversial images... passing through security screening checkpoints.

In a letter released Thursday, TSA administrator John Pistole told the House Homeland Security committee that as of May 16, all US airports scanners equipped with the ability to produce the penetrating images will now only show a generic outline of a passenger to the operator. A colored box pops up if the full-body scanner detects a potentially forbidden item.

The TSA beat their deadline by two weeks for modifying the scanners.

SOURCE