in German airports, too, are going to install scanners Inspection …
After nearly held to undermine the terrorist plane from Nigeria and in German airports have tightened security measures. Objections, however, have caused plans to install scanners for the pre-screening air passengers.
The Germans have an ambivalent attitude to nakedness. On the one hand, increased modestly, they are no different: men with women paryatsya naked in saunas, in the buff, sunbathe on the beaches and lawns with pleasure removed naked for glossy magazines and tabloids.
Protests piercing lovers …
On the other hand, the government plans to install scanners at airports in Germany pre-flight, allowing passengers to look at through clothes, slammed, well, for example, fans of intimate body piercing, which will be visible on screen. Indignant Disability Alliance - because the scanner “sees” and prostheses.
Against the background of the story of “Christmas” terrorist, who carried on board the aircraft, flying from Holland to America explosives sewn into his underwear, such objections may seem absurd. The Germans, however, is not a laughing matter.
… and politicians
discussion went to the highest political level. “The Basic Law is still in force in Germany - indicates internal political expert SPD Dieter Vifelspyutts. - It means that you should always respect the dignity of man.”
scanners, which make visible sex organs, as well as implants or prostheses, he considers inadmissible in Germany, because their application undermines human dignity.
Idea of scanners, pre-screening supports the conservative Interior Minister Thomas de Mezieres. But he takes into account the discontent of the public. According to the minister, devices at airports will meet three requirements. First, they should identify only the objects outside the human body, including those made of plastic. Secondly, be safe from a medical point of view. And, thirdly, do not intrude into the intimate sphere, that is, ensuring compliance with the personal rights of citizens.
scanner and human rights
meets the requirements of this new generation of scanners, developed by German engineers to replace those that use X-rays and can in fact consider man through clothes in all the intimate details. The results of field trials of new technology gladdened even the German liberals, who previously being in opposition, rejected as a violation of human dignity, “translucence” of passengers.
“We now have scanners - is satisfied with the vice-chancellor and chairman of the liberal FDP, Guido Westerwelle - which does not reveal the man, but, nevertheless, to successfully identify the presence of a weapon or explosives.”
As assured and the representative of the federal police, Sandra Pfeiffer, will be used only such scanners, screens that do not will determine the sex of an air passenger, or his weight. The image will be, in her words, the shape of the icon or the silhouette of a normal person and do not define a man or a woman.
Scientists calm
principle behind the new scanners are explained in detail the interested public radio station Deutschlandfunk Professor Helmut Essen from the Research Institute of Physics and the high-frequency radar technology. In such a device is used roughly the same technology as in microwave ovens. These microwaves can play on the computer screen only the vague outlines of how to strip naked man. With the new scanner can make visible hidden under clothing, but not inside the body of metal or ceramic objects, and also similar to explosive materials. Special computer programs can determine, for example, the presence of a gun under your clothes.
“Looking inside the body, this contraption still can not - explained Helmut Essen. - But what is sure to be seen, it is piercing, or something like that. For the rest, figures and objects depicted on the screen is shown schematically. With regard to health risk, then from this point of view, says Professor Essen, the new scanners are completely safe. However, and used in the United States or other countries, X-ray can not be afraid.
“These x-ray machines operate with microscopic doses of radiation, which are completely harmless. This is less than the normal TV screen emits in one hour,” - counted Helmut Essen.
Benefits are
another matter - the potential effectiveness of Inspection scanners in general. Drug couriers both sexes sometimes successfully evade control, hiding the drugs inside his own body. This “living” container for the explosives could easily become a suicide bomber rams. But one undeniable advantage in scanners still there. Their massive use will significantly accelerate the process of pre-screening. Skip the passengers through the scanner on board the aircraft may be in fact much faster than if palpate each hand.
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