LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) – After a few weeks of testing, London’s Heathrow airport and Manchester’s airport have available full body scanners which will be used at the discretion of security personnel. Citizens who do not comply when told they must be scanned will not be allowed to board any flight, as of noon today.
Full Body Scanning Underway in Britain
“Given the current security threat level, the Government believes it essential to start introducing scanners immediately,” said Transport Secretary Lord Adonis. A previous exemption for children will be ended. Adonis assured that racial profiling would not be a means by which passengers would be chosen for scanning. Alex Deane, director of a privacy watch campaign called Big Brother Watch, said , “those upset by the prospect of undergoing these scans shouldn’t be forced to choose between their dignity and their flight. What kind of a free society does the Government think it is ’protecting’, when it invades our privacy like this?”
