Airport scanners ‘may be unlawful’

UKPA | February 15, 2010

The use of body scanners at UK airports may be unlawful, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned.

Scanners already in place at Heathrow and Manchester Airports may be breaking discrimination law as well as breaching passengers’ rights to privacy, the commission said.

It has now expressed its concerns in a letter to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.

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