January 30, 2007

Report: UK Considers Deploying X-Ray Scanners on Street to Search Passers-by

X-ray cameras that would "undress" passers-by in a bid to thwart terrorists concealing weapons, could be coming to a street near you, according to reports. Aside from the obvious privacy issues, would such a plan work? Leaked documents said to have been drawn up by the Home Office and seen by the Sun newspaper say cameras which can see through clothes could be built into lamp posts to "trap terror suspects".

Could X-ray scanners work on the street?, BBC News, January 29, 2007.