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Originally Posted by setanta

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 know I'm totally aware that I'm being a fuddy duddy.

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.