Backlash grows vs. full-body scanners
Backlash grows vs. full-body scanners
“The system takes three to five times as long as walking through a metal detector,” says Phil Bush of Atlanta, one of many fliers on USA TODAY’s Road Warriors panel who oppose the machines. “This looks to be yet another disaster waiting to happen.”
The machines — dubbed by some fliers as virtual strip searches — were installed at many airports in March after a Christmas Day airline bombing attempt. The Transportation Security Administration has spent more than $80 million for about 500 machines, including 133 now at airports. It plans to install about 1,000 by the end of next year.
But the machines are running into complaints and questions here and overseas:
• The International Air Transport Association, which represents 250 of the world’s airlines, including major U.S. carriers, says the TSA lacks “a strategy and a vision” of how the machines fit into a comprehensive checkpoint security plan. “The TSA is putting the cart before the horse,” association spokesman Steve Lott says.
• Security officials in Dubai said earlier this month they wouldn’t use the machines because they violate “personal privacy,” and information about their “side effects” on health isn’t known….
www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-07-12-full-body-scanners_N.htm
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