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At the heart of the debate are state-of-the-art body scanners at airports. Some argue that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab might have been stopped from boarding his flights in Lagos or Amsterdam if the machines had been in place. Others question their value versus the loss of privacy.
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Members of the Electronic Privacy Information Center also say the machines see too much. A week before Flight 253 took off from Amsterdam, the group filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking information about use of the scanners. It said the machines used at airports and federal courthouses were the equivalent of “digital strip searches” because they “capture images of individuals stripped naked.”
But those on the better-safe-than-sorry side say they’d happily submit to an electronic “strip tease” if it would help get them safely to their destination.
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The European Union Parliament voted in October 2008 for more study of the scanners’ impact on privacy before authorizing their full deployment in European airports. Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has tested the machines for three years, mostly on flights within Europe. Abdulmutallab was not screened before he boarded his Detroit-bound flight there.
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