Heathrow Airport Scanners Might Be Illegal

There was a new introduction of body scanners for security in Manchester Airport last year and now also being used in Heathrow Airport. UK’s equality commission has suggested that this introduction might be illegal.

The first body scanner was revealed in Manchester Airport in October 2009, and many people were concerned about being seen naked by other people. Other concern was whether this images will be illegally printed especially celebrities images as people can print these images and do whatever they wish to with it. Recently bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan landed in Heathrow and when asked about the body scanner he replied back as a joke: “It’s good for security but it is embarrassing for people who are not well endowed, also he felt that it is an infringement on privacy rights”. And already the first controversy of body scanner started which was about his image being printed at the airport by one of the security staff. These reports were denied by the airport on 10^th of February 2010.

While all the checks were going on inside outside in the Heathrow parking lot there were thousands of fans gathered around to see their hero from India.

Many protestors gathered in Manchester airport parking protesting against the new body machines as they felt it contravene on privacy rights and conflict discriminations laws.

If it is proven illegal, it is designed for a good use and will definitely help from terrorism. Most airport parking’s do not have security such as in Birmingham airport parking, Aberdeen airport parking and others. They should come up with a machine such as body scanners to scan the cars coming through to the airport to protect the buildings in and around the airport. How this will work is when a car enters the car park the machine will scan the whole car body just as the airport body scanners. This keep the buildings in and around the airport secured.