Airport Scanners may Breach Human Rights, Watchdog says
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is calling on the government to set out its justification for the scanners, which Gordon Brown has said will be gradually introduced at British airports following the attempt to blow up a plane over the US on Christmas Day. The EHRC says the proposals are likely to have a negative impact on privacy, especially for disabled people, elderly people, children and transgender people.
The commission has written to the home secretary, Alan Johnson, to clarify what safeguards will be put in place to protect passengers.
It also wants to see the evidence for the profiling of travellers in the context of selecting people to be scanned. Equal rights campaigners have aired concerns that the process will lead to discrimination against people on the grounds of race, ethnicity of religion.
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