Major UK airport to ditch ‘naked’ scanners






Belfast Telegraph
September 17, 2012

Controversial “naked” security scanners are to be ditched by airport bosses.

The machines at Manchester Airport invaded passenger privacy, according to critics, by giving graphic X-ray style images.

But a trial of their use comes to an end next month and they will be replaced by five next generation “privacy friendly” scanners thanks to EU rules.

The new scanners include a feature which automatically processes images of passengers using a system that eliminates the need for a security officer to view the ghost-like X-ray body outlines that sparked the controversy.

The new machines instead scan passengers using radio frequency-based millimetre wave technology rather than the low dose X-rays used by the current body scanners. A computer then analyses the scans and alerts airport staff where to look for hidden objects using a stick figure diagram.

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3 Responses to “Major UK airport to ditch ‘naked’ scanners”

  1. Sorry….NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! Get these freaking machines and perverted, government mofo’s completely OUT of ALL airports!!!

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  3. Somebody in the EU must have read Where Did The Towers Go by Dr Judy Wood. This is so MUCH better than the EU banning herbs, vitamins and colloidal silver. Maybe the manufacturer of the new machines is not in US but in Europe??

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