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New scanners to be used across Europe by 2010
BRUSSELS — Digital body scanners which leave little to the imagination will be used by airport security on passengers travelling across the European Union (EU) within two years.
According to a draft European Commission regulation, the new millimetre wave imaging scanners are to be used “individually or in combination, as a primary or secondary means and under defined conditions” to provide a “virtual strip search” of travellers.
The new EU regulation, which will be binding on Britain, is intended to enter into force across the continent by the end of April 2010.
The new imaging technology creates an image of an unclothed body which privacy critics argue “amounts to a virtual strip search” has been tested on a voluntary basis at Heathrow’s Terminal Four. Read more…
