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An x-ray machine which takes "naked" images of airline passengers is undergoing trials in England as part of a new high-tech security system.
United Kingdom: M A P (GeographyIQ.com)
Manchester Airport has begun using the full-body scan machine which can instantly detect any hidden weapons or explosives without passengers having to remove any of their clothing for a search.
'See-through-clothes' scanners: Image (Independent.com.mt)
However, some passengers fear the machine reveals a little too much, including breast enlargements, the outline of genitals and body piercings.
Airport officials insist the black and white images taken of passengers in the walk-through booth machine were not pornographic and would be destroyed immediately.
The airport's head of customer experience, Sarah Barrett, said the machine removed the need for passengers to take off coats, shoes and belts at security checks as well as the "pat down" search, procedures which were detested by most people.
"This scanner completely takes away the hassle of needing to undress," she told the BBC.
The machine, which cost about STG80,000 ($AU139,263) beams electromagnetic waves at passengers while they stand in a booth.
A three-dimensional image is then created and assessed by an officer sitting in a separate part of the airport.
Passengers at the airport still have the option of refusing a scan and opting for the more traditional security checks.
Article found online at: Link… (News.com.au)
UPDATE - See also this related item: Other (Independent.com.mt)
The Local
The German government on Friday rejected the European Commission's plan to allow so-called backscatter x-ray security scanners at airports.
More 'naked' scanners: Image (TheLocal.de)
A speaker from the Interior Ministry said "we will not go along with this nonsense," on Friday in Berlin.
The idea has been almost universally panned by parliamentary security experts from the Social Democrats, Greens, socialist Left party, and liberal Free Democrats (FDP) all expressed reservations that the scans - which create a ghostly naked image of a person - were an unacceptable invasion of privacy.
"This method cannot be implemented in Germany, as it violates all limits of embarrassment," said Max Stadler from the FDP.
The European Commission recently said it would allow the new technology to improve security at EU airports.
But Germany's federal police said passengers need not fear being "exposed" at the nation's airports. Along with strict technical regulations the backscatter scanners would only be used under approved legal situations that "particularly respect the privacy of passengers."
Article found online at: Link… (TheLocal.de)
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