Body scanners at airports that increase your risk of skin cancer, according to experts could. scientists say radiation from the scanner has underestimated, and could be particularly risky for children.
Because the beam of radiation on the skin, concentrated is one of the most sensitive radiation organs of the human body, the dose can be up to 20 times higher than first estimated.
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This is a strip-search, period. It makes no difference that the technology allows it to be done on an industrial scale, it's a violation of privacy that ultimately has, at best, no effect on safety. At worst, it exposes frequent fliers to elevated doses of x-ray radiation which may cause more deaths by cancer than the terrorists could ever kill with an airplane.
ReplyDeleteBody-cavities are not revealed, thus making this simply an exercise in power-mongering voyeurism.
You MUST opt-out of these intrusive searches, and maybe be wanded/patted by a same-sex guard. I did this a few months ago, which gave me the opportunity to officially express my displeasure - the guard wrote down the reason for my opting-out for their official records (it's a strip-search, I said). I suggest more people do this.
Plus - do you want your kids showing up to Beavis & Butthead in the back room looking like this:
http://www.rupture.co.uk/Terminal%204.html