Green light for X-rated X-rays
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Airport authorities in Australia a new high-tech body scanner that shows passengers’ most intimate parts will be trialled at Melbourne airport. The Australian newspaper has reported that the new “virtual strip search” technology will be adopted for 6 weeks on Melbourne’s domestic services. Images of travellers’ breasts and genitals will not be obscured.
George Brenan, Acting Executive Director of the Office of Transport Security, denied that passengers’ privacy would be overly compromised.
“It’s not an image people would find invasive,” he told the Herald Sun newspaper. “There’s a barrier between the people who see the scanned images and the passengers so that no-one can compare.”
Further trials in Sydney and Adelaide airports are due to start next week.
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