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[encoderX]

Body scanners risk right to privacy, says UK watchdog.

Do you agree that security is more paramount?

Do you believe your privacy is more paramount?

I totally agree with them for security reasons

[secludo]

I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, if you've got nothing to hide, don't worry about it. I don't care of some creepy airport dude gets his jollies off of seeing an xray of me in my birthday suit. That is the concern, yes? Privacy? Blah, whatever. Let me board my damn plane, I don't have a gun up my butt.

[JohnJ]

Originally Posted by EncoderZ

Body scanners risk right to privacy, says UK watchdog.

Do you agree that security is more paramount?

Do you believe your privacy is more paramount?

I totally agree with them for security reasons

It wouldn't bother me. It's not like you will see the people at the airport again in your life... unless you constantly are hanging around.

[Brian-de-vie]

The whole concept of 'Privacy' is fake.

Even before the 'current terrorism threats' people had this crazy notion of 'Privacy Rights'

We are All born Naked, with no Privacy.
We All Die the same, with No need for Privacy.

Only those that 'have something to hide, 'need' Privacy.

As far as the OPs specific post,

Yes I believe 'scanning' is better than being blown up.
Heck, it's even better than 'fearing or even thinking' you might get blown up.

[alucasa]

Well ? I've got nothing to hide, so I don't care.
Privacy can kiss someone else's ass because I don't think there is privacy anyway.

[encoderX]

From what I understand the person monitoring the scans (in a seperate sealed room) doesn't even know who you are

I'd rather be body scanned than blown up & loved one having to identifying my body in a morgue!

I agree privacy issues should be discussed & rules agreed but, not to the point of body scanners been withdrawn.

[HostThree]

I'm not so much worried about privacy, I'm more concerned about the radiation factor. I'm in an airport pretty much every week, it's going to be getting extended later to pretty much, we have done no tests at all on what damaged this can do to a human.

[encoderX]

As for the actual radiation dose, he said the typical backscatter machines deliver about 0.1 microsevert of radiation. The average chest X-ray, by comparison, delivers 100 microseverts of radiation, and a chest computed tomography or CT scan delivers 10,000 microseverts.

According to the Transportation Security Administration website, the radiation dose from a single scan on a backscatter machine is the equivalent of two minutes of flying on an airplane.

Source: Reuters: Radiation risk low with whole-body airport scanners

I've also seen the debate on the news some time ago with experts in this field & they said definately low with nothing the individual should worry about

[HostThree]

Cheers for that.

From a passengers point of view, I would be fine with it but from an aircrews point of view it's going to be a pain. If I'm doing say 4-5 flights a day, that means I'm going to have to do these tests 4-10 times a day. Really don't understand why they still get us to do it, if we really wanted to do damage to an aircraft we could do a lot worse than carry something on board.

[encoderX]

I was thinking similar thing not long ago.

For it to work 100% of people on the aircraft would need scanning then obviously the luggage & food containers ...etc.

Be like flying on AirForce One

From a terrorist point of view as these body scanners become commonplace they'll just resort (as sometimes in the past) to suicide bombing in the airport itself!

If you seriously think about it on a busy holiday in airport terminal there'll be hundreds if not thousands stood around (public & staff).

[HostThree]

Originally Posted by EncoderZ

I was thinking similar thing not long ago.

For it to work 100% of people on the aircraft would need scanning then obviously the luggage & food containers ...etc.

Be like flying on AirForce One

From a terrorist point of view as these body scanners become commonplace they'll just resort (as sometimes in the past) to suicide bombing in the airport itself!

If you seriously think about it on a busy holiday in airport terminal there'll be hundreds if not thousands stood around (public & staff).

Already been attempted at my local airport (Glasgow).

[Mike - Limestone]

Originally Posted by EncoderZ

From what I understand the person monitoring the scans (in a seperate sealed room) doesn't even know who you are

If the separate sealed room part is true and commonplace, my own objections (if any) certainly subside considerably. It would seem to be far less of a privacy concern then.

-mike

[fwaggle]

If the person's in another room, I don't see the harm in it (and I'd consider myself a "privacy advocate") - in fact it'll probably improve a few different points about the whole airport security thing (which isn't working as of right now anyway).

If the person is in another room and can't identify a person being scanned except by their number/place in line, then it rules out racial profiling and that sort of thing.

[maniakaz]

Since I am not going to be terrorist - I have nothing to hide. They may scan me with whatsoever they want. It comes to very simple choices:
A) My own privacy and high possibility that I will be blown up by some bad guy;
B) My own security and high possibility that I will reach my destination safely.
I choose security. If I am blown up into 65536 pieces, what's the use of so higly mythologised "privacy"?

[GreatAmericanHost]

To be honest I couldn't care less. I find the entire situation quite hilarious, actually. Just wait until the buses and trains start getting hit. Anyways, I went through one of these full body scanners when I departed from Miami. It didn't bother me all that much.