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Will any Australian Airport introduce the "virtual strip" full body scanner?
Current forecast: Yes, for passengers identified as a security risk (50% chance
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Combining all predictions, the current most likely outcome is Yes, for passengers identified as a security risk with a probability of 50% (up 17% in last 1 day)
A TRIAL of new security scanners that will subject travelers to a "virtual strip search" will start at Australian airports this month. The trial will take place at Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide airports from this month to the end of next month.
The X-ray technology, which is high energy and claimed to be harmless, allows screeners to detect non-metallic devices, objects and weapons concealed on a person's body, but also to see a person's organs and genitals.
"It provides detailed images of a person's body, in particular body shape, which many people might find highly embarrassing," says Stephen Blanks of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties.
Adelaide University civil liberties expert Allan Perry said the technology could breach people's privacy if used as a general measure for all passengers rather than those identified as a security risk.
"If this is done on a widespread basis without selectivity it certainly goes beyond an appropriate balance of personal privacy and security," he said. "Simply because something is being done for the purpose of security does not justify intrusive and invasive searches of people. If you said that everyone who wanted to board an aircraft would be physically strip-searched people would object. This is tantamount to the same thing."
To settle, at least one airport must announce the usage of the system in the future before suspension of this question, which is within one month after the trial period. If both the "general measure" and the "security risk" option apply, the "general measure" is the option to be settled.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,,24432963-5014090,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24440099-5014090,00.html
The X-ray technology, which is high energy and claimed to be harmless, allows screeners to detect non-metallic devices, objects and weapons concealed on a person's body, but also to see a person's organs and genitals.
"It provides detailed images of a person's body, in particular body shape, which many people might find highly embarrassing," says Stephen Blanks of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties.
Adelaide University civil liberties expert Allan Perry said the technology could breach people's privacy if used as a general measure for all passengers rather than those identified as a security risk.
"If this is done on a widespread basis without selectivity it certainly goes beyond an appropriate balance of personal privacy and security," he said. "Simply because something is being done for the purpose of security does not justify intrusive and invasive searches of people. If you said that everyone who wanted to board an aircraft would be physically strip-searched people would object. This is tantamount to the same thing."
To settle, at least one airport must announce the usage of the system in the future before suspension of this question, which is within one month after the trial period. If both the "general measure" and the "security risk" option apply, the "general measure" is the option to be settled.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,,24432963-5014090,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24440099-5014090,00.html
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Initial likelihoods: Yes, as general measure for all passengers: 5%, Yes, for passengers identified as a security risk: 30%, No, no airport will introduce the scanner: 65%
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score: 10
Reuters UK 1 week ago
for airport security checks that would show passengers naked on a scanner screen, condemned by critics as a 'virtual strip search.' Opposition to the plan in the European Parliament had threatened to delay a wider airport security proposal that includes
score: 10
Silicon.com 3 weeks ago
The EU has taken another step towards the introduction of 'virtual strip search' full body scanners at airports. A workshop on aviation security and the use of full body scanners, which reveal a negative-like image of a person's body, was
score: 10
Silicon.com 3 weeks ago
world's greatest artificial intelligences . But you can still dig out your avatar because according to industry experts. Virtual strip search scanners on the other hand were proving rather less popular with the EU as politicians Stories of the month -
score: 10
Wired News 5 weeks ago
airport experience, but instead a privacy issue. According to Reuters, the scanners ? which can ? are 'a virtual strip search' which could infringe human rights. With airport security now being nothing more than a race to cover any and every lunatic
score: 10
IT Web 5 weeks ago
full-body scanners By Reuters Posted: 27th October 2008Germany will not participate in EU proposals for airports to use full-body scanner security checks, which have raised privacy issues, its interior ministry said on Friday.'I can tell you in all
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE4961CO20081007
http://www.infrastructure.gov.au
it is evidently used in some places in the USA ,Canada and Europe
It already is being introduced in several U.S. airports and has been tested in other countries around the world, including EU nations such as Britain and the Netherlands. However, EU officials said it could face a ban if the 27-nation bloc does not include it in a new regulation listing acceptable airport security equipment.
(...) the technology should not be used routinely on passengers, but could be introduced when suspicions are raised."
http://www.pr-inside.com/eu-lawmakers-criticize-virtual-strip-r873008.htm
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