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the naked scan at manchester airport
Published Oct. 22, 2009Views: 873
Okay this isn't happening in the US but I found it way too interesting not to post on GOLO.
The Naked Scan is all over the news in the UK. It's a new X-ray security scanner at Manchester Airport that provides a scanned image displaying your naked body on the screen.
Here is a blurb from the travel community, Lonely Planet:
The (possibly) bad news is that it generates a clothes-free image of anyone who stands in it, which is scanned by security staff sitting in a remote location. In addition to the prohibited items they’re designed to display, they also show up breast enlargements, piercings and hip replacements. And, if the picture below is anything to go on, outlines of bits and bobs that you wouldn’t normally have out on display in an airport. This imaging technology is being offered as a trial, and is also being rolled out on an experimental (and again, optional) basis by selected US Airports over the next year.
Try to keep the comments clean GOLO. I am really sharing this for informational purposes and the wow factor. I feel as though I might have to mark my own photo as abuse!
What do you think. Should we do this here in the US? It sounds as if trials are on the way...
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i heard about this a while back. im not sure how i feel about this. it could be a good thing, but i'm not sure if the benefits (which i would actually expect to be quite few) outweigh the potential for abuse.
i would like to see stats on how many dangerous items the manchester airport found using this device that otherwise would have gone undetected.
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October 22, 2009 4:03 p.m.
No, I don't care for a copy of mine, but you see that cute little number sitting up front ;)
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