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Green_T


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Manchester Airport body scanners to become compulsory [UK]
#13334492 - 10/14/10 04:08 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Expect these in all airports in the future, and then anywhere where there is a metal detector
Manchester Airport body scanners to become compulsory 14 October 2010 - BBC
All people flying out of Manchester Airport will have to pass through body scanners by the end of October, it has been announced.
The equipment will be installed in all three security areas, making it compulsory for every air passenger.
Shami Chakrabarti, from Liberty, said the prospect of all travellers having "virtual strip-searches" was worrying.
However, airport bosses said most people now preferred the scanners to the full body pat down.
Work to install the final body scanner at Terminal 3, which accommodates international and domestic flights, will begin later.
Since the trial began in October 2009, more than 400,000 passengers have gone through them.
According to Manchester Airport, 95% of travellers prefer the scanners and queuing times have been radically reduced.
Governments around the world have been looking into the concept of body scanners since the foiled bomb attempt on a Detroit plane on Christmas Day last year.
It can take two minutes to carry out a pat down, whereas walking through a body scanner takes 25 seconds, the airport says.
Earlier this year two Muslim women refused to go through Manchester's scanners on religious grounds.
Andrew Harrison, Manchester Airport's managing director, said: "We began trialling a body scanner in 2009 because one of the most regular complaints from our passengers was about being patted down at security.
"Body scanners could solve this but we also knew that the technology was controversial which is why we embarked on a trial.
"We fully respect that a small number of people have reservations about body scanners on privacy or medical grounds, but we have gone to great lengths to ensure the highest levels of privacy protection and expert studies have shown that the technology is safe."
'Intrusive power'
However, Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties organisation Liberty, said: "As someone who has been subjected to body scanning, I am very worried about all passengers being subjected to virtual strip-searching with no alternative.
"Why is this suddenly proportionate? What about those with medical or cultural sensitivities? Where are the legal safeguards against abuses of this intrusive power?"
Despite a report from a Columbia-based university calling for more research into body scanners and radiation, the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA) in September confirmed that the technology is medically safe because the exposure levels are so small.
The two Muslim women who had refused to pass through the body scanners have since visited the airport to find out more about them, which has allayed their fears, Mr Harrison said.
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tha_doctor
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Re: Manchester Airport body scanners to become compulsory [UK] [Re: Green_T]
#13334516 - 10/14/10 04:35 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Manchester Airport body scanners to become compulsory [UK] [Re: tha_doctor]
#13334529 - 10/14/10 04:50 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've always wanted to go through one of these with "Fuck You TSA" written on my back in tinfoil letters.
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Re: Manchester Airport body scanners to become compulsory [UK] [Re: Green_T]
#13334666 - 10/14/10 06:55 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Truely a prison planet
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Re: Manchester Airport body scanners to become compulsory [UK] [Re: tha_doctor]
#13334782 - 10/14/10 07:48 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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tha_doctor said: These machines expose people to dangerous amounts of radiation.
The images are also stored on federal databases.
It's all part of the New World Order.
I wonder what they would do if you stood by the scanners at the airport with those articles printed out handing them out to people...
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Re: Manchester Airport body scanners to become compulsory [UK] [Re: nice1]
#13336942 - 10/14/10 06:18 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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nice1 said: Truely a prison planet
Absolutly. And it's all gonna get unimaginably worse.
The people who rule the world know exactly what to do so the people accept the tyranny. Not only accept the tyranny, but love it.
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