Airport scanners may breach human rights, watchdog says

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Tue Jan-26-10 09:06 PM
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Airport scanners may breach human rights, watchdog says

The equality watchdog has written to the home secretary to express its concern that airport body scanners risk breaching an individual's right to privacy.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is calling on the government to set out its justification for the scanners, which Gordon Brown has said will be gradually introduced at British airports following the attempt to blow up a plane over the US on Christmas Day. The EHRC says the proposals are likely to have a negative impact on privacy, especially for disabled people, elderly people, children and transgender people.

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plantwomyn

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Wed Jan-27-10 04:27 PM
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1. I would think

that a full patdown or "private" screening would be more intrusive. I would rather go through a scanner than be patted down or strip searched.

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