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Privacy campaigners have complained that the new body scanners effectively perform a virtual strip search.

UK child protection laws ban the creation of indecent images of children and it is looking like under 18s will be exempt from the scans. Other civil liberties groups have called for safeguards to ensure that images derived from the new full body scanners don’t end up published on the internet or elsewhere.

At the beginning of January 2010 a trial of the new body scanning technology was commenced at Manchester airport.The body scanner triall only started after under 18s were exempted from the security check.

Concerns have been raised in the United States where similar systems are in use and images are required to be immediately deleted. It has been suggested that images of celebrities or people with unusual physical profiles would prove to be irresistibly attractive to employees who would then breach privacy requirements by sharing such images.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have said that there are justified concerns regarding an individual’s right to privacy and the images produced by the new scanning systems. The UK Departmetn of Transport are reported to be developing a strict code of practice that will prevent images derived from body scanners from being distributed.

The recent alleged attempt to blow up an American aircraft on December 25th by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has led to the rushed proposal to introduce new security technology at British airports. Some have said that there is only around a 50 to 60% chance that the device carried by this alleged terrorist would have been detected by the new scanning technology.

Many groups interested in privacy and civil liberties have raised concerns over the introduction of the new technology.

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