Kids May Be Barred From 'Nude' Airport Scanner [UK]
Cub Reporter
By Gerard Tubb
Sky News, UK: 14 October 2009
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Nude-Airport-Scanner-Children-May-Be-Barred-As-Body-Scan-Could-Break-Indecent-Images-Law/Article/200910215405871
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Manchester Airport has admitted it might be illegal for children to
use its new 'nude' security scanner when it comes into operation at
the end of the month.
The full body scanner, which was launched in a blaze of publicity,
reveals everything under clothing and shows a clear outline of the
passenger's genitals.
The airport has now said that no under-18s will be allowed to use the
device unless it can clarify the law on indecent images of children.
Manchester Airport's head of external communications Russell Craig
said they would be taking advice before starting the trial at the end
of the month.
"We believe it is legal," he told Sky News. "But we won't allow any
under-18s through it if that's not the case."
"If people are saying this might be a problem then we are going to say
'fine, come talk to us about it.'"
Under the airport's pilot scheme, which was announced on Tuesday,
passengers of all ages were to be given the option of bypassing normal
security at Manchester's Terminal 2 to stand in a scanner which can
'see' through their clothes.
The Protection of Children Act 1978 and the Sexual Offences Act 2003
make it illegal to possess, distribute, show and make indecent images
of children.
A child is defined for the purposes of the legislation as anyone under
the age of 18.
The potential ban on youngsters was announced after campaigner Shy
Keenan contacted Sky News to ask whether children could be scanned.
"If there is any suggestion that they might be taking indecent images
of children then they shouldn't do it," she said.
"We can't allow a line to be crossed in case perverts try to say they
were only looking at images for a short time and weren't storing
them."
Ms Keenan set up the Phoenix Chief Advocates campaign group with Sara
Payne, whose daughter Sarah was murdered in 2000 by Roy Whiting.
The two women won the 2008 Barclay Women of the Year Award.
"Why didn't they look into the law on images of children before
announcing the trial?" she asked.
"This is about the rights of children not to be exploited."
Speaking at the scanner's launch, Sarah Barrett of Manchester
Airport's customer relations admitted it was controversial.
"This technology offers a potential alternative but we know that some
people see it as controversial. That's why we are running a trial,"
she said.
To reassure passengers, she stressed the images would only be seen by
"a highly trained security officer".
"They are not sitting in the search area and they can't link the image
to the individual," she said.
Alisdair Gillespie, an expert on the law relating to indecent images
at Leicester's De Montfort University, said there was a theoretical
possibility that an image taken by the scanner could be considered
indecent.
"Usually an indecent image would be one where there was something
overtly sexual about it," he said.
"But if this machine can produce an image of a child's genitals then
there is a theoretical possibility that it might be classed as
indecent."
Manchester Airport says it will now liaise with child protection
experts before deciding whether under-18s would be allowed to use the
new scanner.
Baal
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Cub Reporter wrote in alt.support.boy-lovers on Wed October 14 2009 18:48
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Oh, /that/ nutter. I recently read an interview about Shy Keenan. She went
through some incredible abuse and survived, but at the cost of her sanity,
it would appear. She lives in a police-protected safehouse of sorts, and is
constantly attended by staff, whom she never lets out of earshot. She seems
to be obsessed by the fear that she and/or her family is at risk from some
amorphous, shadowy, powerful and highly-organized network of paedophiles,
who can be found everywhere, lurking under every rock and behind every tree,
just waiting to pounce.
> "If there is any suggestion that they might be taking indecent images
> of children then they shouldn't do it," she said.
>
> "We can't allow a line to be crossed in case perverts try to say they
> were only looking at images for a short time and weren't storing
> them."
Good grief!
> Ms Keenan set up the Phoenix Chief Advocates campaign group with Sara
> Payne, whose daughter Sarah was murdered in 2000 by Roy Whiting.
>
> The two women won the 2008 Barclay Women of the Year Award.
>
> "Why didn't they look into the law on images of children before
> announcing the trial?" she asked.
Perhaps because they weren't thinking in terms of sexual abuse?
Shy Keenan seems to think of nothing else -- she's a nutcase!
> "This is about the rights of children not to be exploited."
I'm not crazy about these scanners myself, but this is lunacy of the first
order (not the least bit surprising, coming from her.)
> Speaking at the scanner's launch, Sarah Barrett of Manchester
> Airport's customer relations admitted it was controversial.
>
> "This technology offers a potential alternative but we know that some
> people see it as controversial. That's why we are running a trial,"
> she said.
>
> To reassure passengers, she stressed the images would only be seen by
> "a highly trained security officer".
Whom Ms. Keenan would be among the first to call a paedophile. After all,
*anyone* who would even /apply/ for such a position MUST be a pervert!
> "They are not sitting in the search area and they can't link the image
> to the individual," she said.
Won't mean diddly-squat to Shy Keenan.
> Alisdair Gillespie, an expert on the law relating to indecent images
> at Leicester's De Montfort University, said there was a theoretical
> possibility that an image taken by the scanner could be considered
> indecent.
>
> "Usually an indecent image would be one where there was something
> overtly sexual about it," he said.
>
> "But if this machine can produce an image of a child's genitals then
> there is a theoretical possibility that it might be classed as
> indecent."
*EVERY* photo ever taken of children is INDECENT -- after all, the child is
buck *NAKED* under all that clothing!!!! Quick, seize all the cameras, burn
all the photos!
> Manchester Airport says it will now liaise with child protection
> experts before deciding whether under-18s would be allowed to use the
> new scanner.
Yeah, right. So they'll do what instead, pat 'em down? <sigh>
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Fred B. Brown
"Cub Reporter" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Well this is certainly disappointing news for the pedo community, no peeking
at underage private parts at the airport. I'll bet they still have no
problem
recruiting nude scanner operators. WoooWooooWooooooo love them 18
year olds.
Fred B. Brown
"Baal" <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote in message
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Let's classify all new borns 'adults' at birth. That should solve the
problem.