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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Airline Passengers Have 'No Right' to Refuse Naked Body Scanners

Airline passengers will have no right to refuse to go through a full-body search scanner when the devices are introduced at Heathrow airport next week, ministers have confirmed.

The option of having a full-body pat-down search instead, offered to passengers at US airports, will not be available despite warnings from the government's Equality and Human Rights Commission that the scanners, which reveal naked bodies, breach privacy rules under the Human Rights Act.'

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Once again it is a matter of the public 'en mass'  to refuse this infringement of their civil liberties - but will this happen?  Baaaaaa

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