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// New airport body scanners spark privacy debate
By Adrian Raschella
The Government has defended controversial new airport body scanners as safe, but prominent civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman says the technology is an invasion of privacy....
Using this technology, security officers can detect metal and plastic weapons and also they can see through your clothes....
Mr O'Gorman, who heads the Council for Civil Liberties, says the technology is a "total invasion of privacy", allowing virtual strip searches and has overstepped the mark.
... there will then be calls for it to be introduced at public malls to deal with teenagers...//
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