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Even following the attempted attack on the Northwest flight, critics remain resolutely opposed to the machines. "A knee-jerk reaction which sees body scanners, with their known drawbacks of passenger delays and privacy threats, as a magic solution is a bad move," says Sarah Ludford, a British member of the European Parliament. "In the Christmas Day case, as in the 9/11 and 7/7 [London] bombings, the failure was not to join the dots of available information." Advocates of civil liberties agree. Simon Davies, director of the London-based human-rights watchdog Privacy International, describes the scanners as a "fashionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Airport Body Scanners Stop Terrorist Attacks? | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

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