this less revealing technology creates a generic human outline like the ones you see on the right side of your screen rather than the grainy but very revealing images of a naked body on the left, which we ve actually blurred because they re so graphic. let s talk about it with tom blank, former deputy director of the transportation security administration. do you think, tom, this solves the problem that has irritated so many people? jon, this is the beginning of the end of the controversy about the privacy issues surrounding this technology. if this test proves successful, what we re going to have is a great industry advance and if don t alarm there s not going to be any image of you seen at all, it s just going to be a green light and if there is a potential threat detected on your person all it s going to be is a generic image and it s going to show the tsa where that threat object might be. so this should be a big stride toward eliminating controversy about privacy and improvement