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Hmmm, I wonder if this will make a difference to what we wear when we travel
from now on.
It puts a new perspective on underwear.
Peter
Naked fury over X-ray scanner at US airports
By Ben Fenton in Washington
BodySearch system new technology for customs services
[29 Jul '99] - US
Customs Service
US Customs Service
AN X-ray scanner that shows airport customs
officers the naked bodies of
passengers has been greeted with outrage by
American civil liberties
watchdogs.
The BodySearch machine has been in place in New
York and five other
American cities for several months. Security
officers can look at pictures of
the human body in outline regardless of how much
clothing passengers are
wearing.
According to a spokesman for the manufacturers,
the images of the body are
not clear, although genitals and breasts are
clearly distinguishable. "It is not
like you are getting a photograph of a naked
person," the spokesman said.
Anyone seeking to smuggle drugs or weapons was
most likely to hide them in
areas untouched by body searches, such as the
groin and, in women, the
chest. Raymond Kelley, commissioner for the
Customs service, said the
machine was introduced in response to passengers'
concerns about intimate
searches.
"People object to being physically touched and in
response to that we brought
in the scanners," Mr Kelley said. The Customs
service is facing several
lawsuits, mainly from women and members of ethnic
minorities, claiming
discrimination in singling out passengers for
body searches.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it was
considering legal action to
prohibit use of the X-ray machine. "If there is
ever a place where a person has
a reasonable expectation of privacy, it is under
their clothing," Gregory
Nojeim, an ACLU lawyer, said yesterday.
The Customs service has refused to say where and
how the machines are
being used, but confirmed that it was planned to
install them at all international
airports in America by next June. The machines
are expected to scan only
passengers selected by Customs officers for
special attention
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