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Body scanners will not be used at Dubai airports: Reports
"DUBAI: Dubai will not be using full-body scanners in either of its two airports to protect passengers' privacy, a Dubai airports' top police official said, according to local press reports Tuesday.Full-body scanners will not be used in Dubai airports as they "contradict Islam, and out of respect for the privacy of individuals and their personal freedom," Al-Bayan daily quoted Brigadier Pilot Ahmad Mohammad Bin Thani, head of Dubai police's general department of airport security, as saying.
"The scanners will be replaced with other inspection systems that reserve travellers' privacy," it cited him as saying."
Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory
"A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate requiring all airports to use full-body scanners lacks sufficient privacy safeguards, says a prominent watchdog group.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center says the bill, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), "contains particularly weak privacy provision[s] that ignore many of the problems with the devices already uncovered."
The bill (PDF), known as the Securing Aircraft From Explosives Responsibly: Advanced Imaging Recognition ("SAFER AIR") Act, would require all commercial airports in the US to use full-body scanners as their primary screening method by no later than 2013."
Iwonder how much Bennet and Klobuchar are getting paid by the machine makers.
"DUBAI: Dubai will not be using full-body scanners in either of its two airports to protect passengers' privacy, a Dubai airports' top police official said, according to local press reports Tuesday.Full-body scanners will not be used in Dubai airports as they "contradict Islam, and out of respect for the privacy of individuals and their personal freedom," Al-Bayan daily quoted Brigadier Pilot Ahmad Mohammad Bin Thani, head of Dubai police's general department of airport security, as saying.
"The scanners will be replaced with other inspection systems that reserve travellers' privacy," it cited him as saying."
Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory
"A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate requiring all airports to use full-body scanners lacks sufficient privacy safeguards, says a prominent watchdog group.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center says the bill, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), "contains particularly weak privacy provision[s] that ignore many of the problems with the devices already uncovered."
The bill (PDF), known as the Securing Aircraft From Explosives Responsibly: Advanced Imaging Recognition ("SAFER AIR") Act, would require all commercial airports in the US to use full-body scanners as their primary screening method by no later than 2013."
Iwonder how much Bennet and Klobuchar are getting paid by the machine makers.
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