Dutch to use full body scanners for US flights.
Amsterdam’s Schiphol has 15 body scanners, but their use has been limited because of privacy objections that they display the contours of the passenger’s body. Neither the European Union nor the U.S. have approved the routine use of the scanners at European airports.
New software eliminates that problem by projecting a stylized image onto a computer screen, highlighting the area of the body where objects are concealed in pockets or under the clothing and alerting security guards.
Whew. A ’stylized image’ to preserve modesty. I wonder if there will be ’stylized images’ is in the appropriate places in the shapes of a fig leaves?
On BBC radio this morning, there was a report that for people who don’t want to undergo the scan, they might allow them to be patted down and frisked instead.
