Full body scanners 'break child-porn laws': your thoughts?

[HelenMumsnet]

Afternoon.

LBC Radio have asked us what Mumsnetters think about privacy campaigners who are saying the proposed new body scanners at British airports breach child protection laws because they create indecent images of children.

(You can read more about this here)

So, what do you think?

Would you be horrified at the idea of security guards looking at full-body scans of your children?

Or do you think these kind of objections are mad?

I've seen one of the images that you see on the scan in the newspaper - its hardly naked! The bloke in the picture was a white blob, you couldn't see his willy.

So no I wouldn't be bothered at all. And even if the pictures were clearer I still wouldn't be bothered.

Its unlikely that the person monitoring the scans is a peadophile and even if he/she is then they have no contact with the child. The child is not been abused, been made to pose for indecent images, etc. No harm comes tothe child, no distress.

And I'd rather my dd have her image taken this way instead of been patted down. How do you know the person who currently pats your kid down isn't a paedophile and enjoying it.

lolololol, what a bag of bollocks

Thank you all very much for your posts - v good stuff.

Sadly, LBC have 'bumped' us for another day because tomorrow's news is all snow, snow, snow...

What Stewie said!

Awassailing - it is, apparently, harder to fool an experienced and well-trained human, than it is to fool a lie-detector. Human ingenuity keeps coming up with ways to get past other products of human ingenuity, but, fundamentally, humans themselves don't change. Which is, no doubt, why the ElAl operatives manage to keep ahead of the terrorists. Or maybe they just make ElAl such a hard target that the terrorists don't bother with it.

IIRC there was an incident in the 80s when a terrorist planted a bomb in a calculator in his pregnant girlfriend's luggage, on a BA flight to Israel. It got past all the x-ray machine testing, all the British security. But there was a second level of security checking, provided by the Israelis, between the British security and boarding. They spotted the bomb and saved the lives of a couple of hundred people.

I still think it is a mistake to rely almost exclusively on technological solutions. The battle against terror is also a battle of hearts and minds.