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liberties groups have called for stringent safeguards that will ensure that images derived from the new system will not be published on the internet or distributed. More >