Airport Body Scanners

Body Scanners Sensitive To Sweaty Armpits?

AOL Travel News | Posted 10.02.2011

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There's been quite the controversy over full-body scanners at American airports, and now Australians are getting a taste of the drama. At Sydney Airpo...

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TSA Will Publish Radiation Test Results To Gauge Health Risks Of Airport Scanners

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Transportation Security Administration said on Friday it will start publishing radiation test results from airport passenger and luggage scree...

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Airport Body Scanners: More Radiation Than You Think?

Gayle Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

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Media discussions of airport scanners have focused on privacy issues, but these pale beside the danger of increased radiation exposure.

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We Need to Talk About Body Scans, Not Scream About Them

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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The implied constitutional right to privacy in relation to body scans has not been balanced against another implied right that most Americans also hold dear: the right to feel reasonably safe when boarding an airplane.

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Scientists Challenge Airport Body Scanners

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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While some doctors have said that the danger from radiation exposure from a full body scan is less than that of a chest X-ray, or a mammogram, the doctors from UCSF disagree.

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Government Officials Say Full-Body Scanners At Airports Are Safe

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — They look a little like giant refrigerators and pack a radiation dose big enough to peer through clothing for bombs or weapons, yet to...

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Airline Pilots OPPOSE Full Body Scans

PCMag.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the White House continues a long-term plan to double the number of full-body scanners in airports by 2014, an American Airlines captain has urged f...

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Flying To Or From New York? Be Prepared To Be Seen

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Air travelers already give up their shoes and bottled water to pass through security checkpoints at New York City's three major airpo...

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Airport Body Scanners Are Unused In Nigeria

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAGOS, Nigeria — Body scanners bought for Nigeria's international airports in the wake of a Christmas Day bomb attempt remain unused months late...

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Midway Airport To Receive The Next Wave Of Body Scanners

Posted 05.25.2011

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After causing quite a stir at their first introduction, full-body scanners are expanding to airports across the country with little fanfare. Chicago'...

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Jews, Muslims Worry Body Scanners Violate Religious Laws

pewforum.org | Omar Sacirbey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Full-body scanners are the latest clash between religious sensitivity and national security. Some religious groups say the scanners are forcing an unc...

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Airport Body Scanner Fatwa: TSA Scans Violate Modesty, Muslim Groups Say

Detroit Free Press | By Niraj Warikoo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a "fatwa" -- a religious ruling -- that forbids Muslims from goin...

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