Software means only suspicious images from ‘naked’ scanners viewed
19.06.10
Manchester Airport will change the way it uses its full body (so called 'naked') scanners with security staff no longer be looking at all the images the machines produce at its three terminals. Currently all images produced by the scanner are reviewed by security staff, however new software to be installed will mean only suspicious images are reviewed.
The scanners were installed at the airport last year as a trial in a bid to increase security and cut queues. However, their permanent placement was confirmed following the failed terrorist attack on a US bound flight on Christmas Day last year.
A spokesman for Rapiscan, which manufactures the scanners, told the Manchester Evening News: ‘If there is no threat then no image will be seen by a human operator and the person will be free to get on the aircraft.’
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