Tonight's hot debate: full-body scanners in airports.
 

Many airports are now using full-body scanners. How do you feel about going through a scanner that can actually see through your clothes ?

Discuss.

If it stops some idiot blowing people up then I don't see a problem with it.

yeah i agree with this

If it makes air travel safer then I couldn't care less if the airport folk get a look at me doos!

What Joe said.

I'm not shy anyway xD joke!

I think Id feel a bit uncomfortable but it would soon pass after a few mins when you realise everybody around ya is getting it done.

LOL if somebody had a hard on whilst walking through xD

I think it's a bit crepy but I understand the need for them.

Hot Debate - you are having a Laugh.


Old Debate.


Everyone , English Folks that is,
have no problem with them.


Case Closed

Its to stop You getting Bombed and Killed on a Plane. It is Common Sense.

I think you need to think about this.

More worrying if the x-ray guy has one :laugh:

Nothing Wrong with a Hard On.

No She will Not.

Lmfao :laugh:

I don't think it's even 'i'm too shy to do it', it's actually a really big invasion of a person's privacy. But then again, it'll always cop down to those who are confident enough and those who are too insecure. Passengers have a choice, right?

What are you doing here ?:shocked:

It's a hot debate if I want it to be. :hugesmile:

i could sense a really hot debate brewing

lmao. you've missed a good one about anal vs oral. Shaun was really active in this one. :laugh:

welcome back then. :hugesmile:

I've got no problem with it, but then again I remember travelling to Israel years ago, and being strip searched by female Israeli soldiers at customs, and I mean "searched" in every conceivable orifice! These days people who get on their high horses about the invasion of their privacy, need to get a grip and understand it HAS to be done - if anything I would say, it's about time.

Think I must have missed that one too, was he giving or receiving?

Nah, I dont have a problem with it at all.

Those with nothing to hide, have nothing to worry about

Choice?
What you want? a Firm man to Pat you Down
is that what you fancy.

In case people havent seen them, here is the sort of image the operator will see of the person being scanned, hardly porn quality.

http://www.othernewsnetwork.com/_images/bodyscanner.jpg

Tonights one for the ladies:

http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanners/Body_Scan_Pic.jpg

What's the black dot on the man's tummy and on his thigh?

Metal Clip belt

Lol, sorry, but I'm going to get on my high horse here for a minute! I do think there's a privacy issue involved to be honest with you.

Ok, I can understand the practicality of it, but there's always the human element here to consider and how it could be actually abused in some ways.

Some airports will allow you to go for a body search by a member of the same sex. On religious or medical grounds etc. Though its not obligatory to offer it, and it is also dependant on having spare security personnel and facilities available for the search.

Some airports like Heathrow say you refuse to sybmit to a scan, you dont fly.

On the Rapiscan system that is being brought into most UK airports, the images generated were saved to the machineand had to be authorised to be deleted.

The system has been changed so that only scans that have been selected to be saved as evidence can be saved. Printouts have to be authorised by security managers, etc.

I still think it's an invasion of privacy though Terry, and who knows what's stored or not?

And sure what about the danger of your gonads getting fried from all the X-rays? Nah, I'm against it, even though I'm totally aware that I'm being a fuddy duddy.

Would feel a bit weird walking through them, but if everyone's in the same boat then I'm not too bothered. There are loads of places where people could hide drugs, weapons etc. so like someone else posted, if it stops those people from boarding a plane then I'm okay with it.

Its a balance between human rights and safety, though personally I think the right to be able to fly to a location and get off there safely without having being held hostage or blown up/shot en route kind of overrides privacy.

As for the sterility issue, thats minimal I would be more worried that frequent fliers who do get scanned would have a higher risk of cancers, also there is a known link between millimetre wave radiation and increased tumour development. (In other words any tumours have accelerated growth.)

Unless there is an increase terrorist threat at the moment UK airports do random scanning.

Lol - I feel more sorry for anyone who gets off on seeing x-rays of my tired old bod!:laugh2: For me I think it's a case of the end justifies the means.

Hi Angus :xyxwave:

Yeah, although I'm fine with it, I would NOT like to see whtat is on their screen as I walk through! hahah

Ok, increased terrorist threat and reacting to it is ok... I can deal with that when and if it happen, maybe! But like how often are planes hijacked nowadays? How often within the last few years?

I don't like playing about with radiation and stuff either. Dodgy dodgy.

Speak for yourself. They'll be lining up for a peek at me. Heathrow will grind to a half. :hugesmile:

Nah, but you know what I mean, right? It's dodgy to me.

It was only Christmas Day last year that Omar whatshisface Matallab tried to blow up a passenger aircraft with a bomb in part strapped to his leg and detonated by injecting it with chemicals from a syringue.

Nigerian student flying from Amsterdam to the US

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news...nd-flight.html

Fair play to your man for getting stuck in. A film director of all people.

I'm still not sure Terry, really. I think it could be abused.

Hi!
I will definitely keep my eyes averted till I'm through. I don't want to spoil my self delusion that I'm still young and gawjus:laugh2:

I see where you're coming from, but I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. I'm terrified of flying in any case, so anything that lessens the prospect of a mid air terrorist attack is fine by me. It seems that loss of privacy is a price we might increasingly have to pay in this present climate of fear and suspicion.

I just don't like where this could take us as a society, you know? The ramifications of it all. Climate of fear, invasion of civil liberties, barcoding, police state, dehumanization, you know what I'm saying?