Body Scanners Suffer Sickening Blow
by Tommy
*EDIT: Yahoo confirms it but further googling throw doubts upon it. Having said that, articles like this aren’t going to help the introduction of these scanners. What do you think?
The introduction of ‘total body scanners’ (also known as ‘naked body scanners’ due to their clarity) where the subject’s body is ‘clearly defined’ has always been dogged with criticism. That said, they are installed at Heathrow Airport and many seem content to bear them. UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.
As it happens, those measures don’t seem to be in place universally, as it was revealed on the BBC’s Jonathan Ross show last Friday that Indian actor Shahrukh Khan had passed through a body scan and later had the image of his naked body printed out and circulated by Heathrow security staff.
He said:
“I was in London recently going through the airport and these new machines have come up, the body scans. You’ve got to see them. It makes you embarrassed – if you’re not well endowed. You walk into the machine and everything – the whole outline of your body – comes out…. Then I saw these girls – they had these printouts. I looked at them … and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them.”
So as you can see, they still have a long way to go.