The number of people agreeing to have their bodies scanned by the full-body scanner being trialled at Manchester airport has risen from 72% to 92%, airport authorities have reported.
Passengers must stand between two blue boxes so that the scanner can produce a ghostly, almost-naked image which should show up anything suspicious underneath people’s clothes. The increase in those who are willing to comply with the Manchester trial appears to have happened shortly after the Detroit airline bombing on Christmas day.
Privacy campaigners opposed the scanner earlier in the week, stating that the images amounted to ‘virtual strip-searching’ and called for safeguards to be put in place to protect passengers’ privacy. It has also been reported that some Muslim women are concerned about this exposure as many choose to dress modestly as part of their lives and may not be comfortable with this level of personal exposure. They are urging the airport to consider having women-only operators viewing the images of Muslim women.
Airport workers point out that images are not stored and are deleted within moments of the image being captured and checked; they also point out that the images are totally anonymous. The image is viewed in a separate room away from the passenger and the security staff standing with them.
The government is taking steps towards changing EU policy so that these scanners can become compulsory at airports. If this happens then Manchester airport alone would need 19 of the RapiScan machines which cost £80,000 each. A huge amount, but a necessary one to avoid events like 9/11 perhaps?
http://gizmodo.com/5443900/airport-scanner-image. have a look. READ THIS ARTICLE BEFORE YOU MAKE DECISIION TO GO THROUGH THE SCANNER.
TSA wants to save their face, manufactures wants to sell them lobbies and buys up government officials for support. We average americans who are not so highly educated in tech jargons, often been suckered into decisions made by very people we asked to protect country for greed. If they tell you its safe . YOU need to wake up and investigate before you make your own decision how health hazard this is. ONCE installed you have no idea how much radiation even by Malfunction of the machines it will generate and risk you for developing Cancer in the future. Plus these machines wont see the inside of your body cavities. so what is the real use of these? its all sales gimmick for the price of your privacy and many more instance of broken promise and liberty. I will not tolerate people taking advantage of others lives, liberty and health for the sake of saving their faces, and failures. THESE Xray machines ARE NOT WHAT YOU and I believe . there have not been long term tested on humans and You and I are and will be ultimate testing subjects for long time to come, JUst as fiberglassess, asbestos that what they claimed to be safe caused Lung cancers years from exposure. YOU and I both see these often in Lawyers quest to relieve the misery from those who ultimately suffered. Know who are those people who really push for these ? know their financial interestet on these machines before you make your decisions. IT IS NOT WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE. what you been told is not all true.
http://www.infowars.com/are-airport-full-body-scanners-a-health-menace/
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