Airport Body Scanners

Thesis statement

The British Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned that the use of full body scanners at airports may breach human rights laws.

Introduction

In a letter to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis, the commission wrote Tuesday that serious concerns existed about the invasion of privacy by the new technology.

While acknowledging the government's need to take urgent steps to protect the public from terrorist threats, the commission's head, Trevor Phillips said there was an apparent lack of safeguards to ensure scanners were operated fairly and without discrimination.

Literature Review

The body scanners, otherwise known as the "virtual strip searching", see through clothing to ...