Full body scanners may be unlawful
16.02.10
The use of full body scanners at UK airports may be unlawful, the Equality & Human Rights Commission has warned. The scanners, already in place at Heathrow and Manchester airports, may be breaking discrimination law as well as breaching passengers' rights to privacy, it said.
The Commission has written a letter to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis raising its concerns. The DfT said security concerns meant scanners had been needed immediately, but it was carrying out an equalities impact assessment.
The scanners are being introduced in response to the attempt to blow up an American plane on Christmas Day. But the commission said it had ‘serious doubts’ that the decision to roll them out in UK airports was legal. It said one of its chief concerns was over how people would be selected for the scans.
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