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The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity - Independent Media Center

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Caption Video Body X-ray scanner trialled at Manchester Airport -<br />

<strong>The</strong> Telegraph 13 Oct 2009. Click on the image <strong>to</strong> watch the Airport<br />

Spokesperson Sarah Barrett defend the trial of full body-scan.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Manchester Airport Spokesperson Sarah Barrett in the above video stated the following:<br />

'Firstly, we have made sure it's safe. So its been certified by the National<br />

Radiological Protection Board. <strong>The</strong>re are part of the Health Protection Agency.<br />

And they are the people who certify medical equipment, medical x-rays fit for<br />

use. So they have given it their stamp of approval.<br />

We have also made the process completely anonymous. So you will see from<br />

the images, you cannot, it is impossible <strong>to</strong> recognize an individual's face from<br />

the image.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are not pho<strong>to</strong>graphic images. <strong>The</strong>y don't show skin color, they are not<br />

erotic, they are not pornographic, completely anonymous.<br />

<strong>The</strong> opera<strong>to</strong>r viewing the image sits remotely, in a different part of the airport.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y don't sit in the public search area, and the machine in which they are<br />

viewing the image doesn't have the capability <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>re images.<br />

So the images can't be s<strong>to</strong>red, you know recorded, forwarded on <strong>to</strong> anybody.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Poor</strong>-<strong>Man's</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Modernity</strong> 236 / 334 Zahir Ebrahim

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