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All selected children will have to go through the new full-body 'naked' scanning machines being introduced at airports, the Government said today.
Transport Secretary Lord Adonis clarified the ruling as he announced a consultation process on the use of scanners.
Civil rights groups have raised legal and privacy concerns about the scanners, which have been introduced at Manchester and Heathrow airports following the failed transatlantic plane bomb attack last Christmas.
Gatwick and Birmingham will have the devices by the end of the year.
Originally posted by hotpinkurinalmint
Let us play devil's advocate. If I were a terrorist, I would just hide my contraband on (or in) the body of a young travel companion. How would you address this issue?
Terrorists have no regard for human life, including their own. I would not put it past them to shove some contraband in a child's body cavity then use the contraband in a suicide mission.
Originally posted by hotpinkurinalmint
reply to post by justinsweatt
What needs to be done is to put strict rules in place regarding what gets done with body scan images. Anybody who violates these strict rules should get stiff punishment. For starters, they should go to prison with the general population and wear special outfits that let everybody know why they are in jail.
The explosive device smuggled in the clothing of the Detroit bomb suspect would not have been detected by body-scanners set to be introduced in British airports, an expert on the technology warned last night.
The machines also cannot detect so-called “booty bombs” in which an explosive is inserted into the body.
Originally posted by hotpinkurinalmint
What needs to be done is to put strict rules in place regarding what gets done with body scan images. Anybody who violates these strict rules should get stiff punishment. For starters, they should go to prison with the general population and wear special outfits that let everybody know why they are in jail.
Originally posted by Digital_Reality
So Muslims are exempt but children are not. Makes total sense considering its children who pose the biggest threat.
Link
Originally posted by alienesque
can someone point me to an official site saying muslims wont have to go through these things..thanks
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Originally posted by hotpinkurinalmint
What needs to be done is to put strict rules in place regarding what gets done with body scan images. Anybody who violates these strict rules should get stiff punishment. For starters, they should go to prison with the general population and wear special outfits that let everybody know why they are in jail.
Right. because rules and law prevent bad things from happening?
It's all well and good to throw somebody in jail for breaking a law but by that time it's already been broken and the images are everywhere.
It's like those Census commercials where the guy says "remember, strict federal regulations protect your information" Ummmm no, they dont. Strict federal regulations might punish somebody who has already abused my information but they certainly dont do a damn thing to protect my information.
Throwing some dude in jail isnt going to get my identity theft mess cleaned up or my unauthorized charges paid off or my credit rating back and it certainly isnt going to stop pervs from whacking it to my scanner image that's floated all around the internet in seconds.