abstract:Privacy software is software built to protect the privacy of its users. The software typically works in conjunction with Internet usage to control or limit the amount of information made available to third-parties.
The decision came after Rapiscan, the company that makes the body scanners, said it could not meet a congressional-ordered deadline to install privacysoftware on the machines.
The TSA move came after Rapiscan, the manufacturer of the 174 so-called "backscatter" machines, acknowledged it could not meet a congressional-ordered deadline to install privacysoftware on the machines.