EU to introduce 'virtual strip search' at air
This is already being used in some of the international airports in the United States of America...
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EU to introduce 'virtual strip search' at airports
The Telegraph Group Limited, London 2008
Published: October 02, 2008, 00:07
London: Digital body scanners that leave little to the imagination will be used by airport security on passengers travelling across the European Union within two years.
According to a draft European Commission regulation, seen by reporters, the new millimetre wave imaging scanners are to be used "individually or in combination, as a primary or secondary means and under defined conditions" to provide a "virtual strip search" of travellers. The new EU regulation, which will be binding on Britain, is intended to enter into force across the continent by the end of April 2010.
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, stressed that while body scanners may be an effective security tool "the implementation must be carried out by the British government in a proportionate manner, based on UK security requirements rather than the dictates of Brussels." He added: "Ministers need to explain publicly and transparently what these proposals are and why they are suitable to the UK."
The new technology, which creates an image of an unclothed body, was tested on a voluntary basis at Heathrow's Terminal 4, but the trial has now been discontinued.
Three-dimensional
Air passengers scanned by the new technology walk into a large booth where electromagnetic waves are beamed on to their body to create a virtual three-dimensional "naked" image from reflected energy. Many travellers have been alarmed by the graphic nature of the black and white images body scanners generate - including revealing outlines of genitalia - raising concerns about privacy.
Gareth Crossman, the director of policy at the human rights organisation Liberty, said: "I don't think people are aware of what these scanners can do and how demeaning it is to have your body on display. Heathrow was right to discontinue their use and they should not be used in Britain except as an alternative to strip searches."
without clothes wouldn't make much difference. What I find infuriating is that the EU is "forcing" countries to adapt this technologyt..
Darn, I'm gonna miss those large TSA ladies who always frisk me. Something about an "underwire...."
Mandi
dont go...to europe
with all the axis of evil visas in my passport i wouldnt dare go to the USA... my choice
anyway better this than a bomb
what's the big deal? at least its better than having someone feel you up?
for operating the machines isn't great. The individual operator's said they weren't rich men and couldn't afford to pay too much to get the job. :-)
I don't see the problem, it is for our own safety. And at least for myself, I would rather have this than being a victim of a act of Violence/terrorism.
it's just a computer generated imsge, not reality - anyone monitoring this will be bored rigid by the end of the day -the person really isn't going to get aroused by them - I have a friend who worked for the police monitoring illegal porn sites in the UK - he found fully clothed women a real bonus after 9 months of doing that job -it's amazing what your brain can blot out.
I wouldn't care.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."