blog/data/2015-02-10-nakenskanner.txt

   1 Title: Nude body scanner now present on Norwegian airport
   2 Tags: english, personvern
   3 Date: 2015-02-10 15:20
   4
   5 <p>Aftenposten, one of the largest newspapers in Norway, today report
   6 that
   7 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/reise/Slik-skannes-kroppen-din-i-fremtidens-sikkerhetskontroll-490666_1.snd">three
   8 of the nude body scanners now is put to use at Gardermoen</a>, the
   9 main airport in Norway.  This way the travelers can have their body
  10 photographed without cloths when visiting Norway.  Of course this
  11 horrible news is presented with a positive spin, stating that "now
  12 travelers can move past the security check point faster and more
  13 efficiently", but fail to mention that the machines in question take
  14 pictures of their nude bodies and store them internally in the
  15 computer, while only presenting sketch figure of the body to the
  16 public.  The article is written in a way that leave the impression
  17 that the new machines do not take these nude pictures and only create
  18 the sketch figures.  In reality the same nude pictures are still
  19 taken, but not presented to everyone.  They are still available for
  20 the owners of the system and the people doing maintenance of the
  21 scanners, as long as they are taken and stored.</p>
  22
  23 <p>Wikipedia have a more on
  24 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_body_scanner">Full body
  25 scanners</a>, including example images and a summary of the
  26 controversy about these scanners.</p>
  27
  28 <p>Personally I will decline to use these machines, as I believe strip
  29 searches of my body is a very intrusive attack on my privacy, and not
  30 something everyone should have to accept to travel.</p>