Gordon Brown Promises Full Body Scanners in UK Airports- Backup Video

Privacy campaigners in the United Kingdom are claiming that the images created by new full body scanners, currently under trial at Manchester airport, are so graphic that they are really a form of virtual strip search.

Strict UK child protection legislation bans the creation of indecent images of children and this is relsulting in under 18s being exempt from body scans. Civil liberties groups have called for stringent safeguards that will ensure that images derived from the new system will not be published on the internet or distributed.

At the beginning of January 2010 a trial of the new body scanning technology was commenced at Manchester airport. The trial only went ahead after under 18s were exempted from the security check.

Similar systems are in use in the United States where images are required to be deleted immediately. Concerns have been raised regarding the images of celebrities or those with unusual features being shared amongst airport security staff.

Concerns have been raise by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) who have said that the new systems risked breaching an individuals right to privacy. In response to these fears the UK Department of Transport has said that they were developing a staff code of practice for those using the new body scanning technology.

The alleged terrorist action to blow up an American aircraft on December 25th has led to a rush to introduce the new technology at all British airports. Some have said that there is only a 50 to 60% chance that the new scanner technology would have detected the device carried by this alleged terrorist.

The proposed introduction of new body scanning technology has raised concerns regarding privacy and civil liberties.

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