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New scanners break child porn laws
Alan Travis,
London
Guardian
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
The rapid introduction of full body scanners at
British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which
ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian
has learned.
Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines
are so graphic they amount to "virtual strip-searching"
and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers
involved.
Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans
or face the delays of introducing new legislation to ensure
airport security staff do not commit offences under child pornography
laws.
They also face demands from civil liberties groups for safeguards
to ensure that images from the £80,000 scanners, including
those of celebrities, do not end up on the internet. The Department
for Transport confirmed that the "child porn" problem
was among the "legal and operational issues" now under
discussion in Whitehall after Gordon Brown's announcement on
Sunday that he wanted to see their "gradual" introduction
at British airports.
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