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Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws
gandhi_2 writes "The Guardian has a story about an ongoing legal battle over the use of full body scanners in the UK. The Protection of Children Act 1978, includes provisions in which it is illegal to create an indecent image or a 'pseudo-image' of a child... which a full body scanner does."
I so hope my theory concerning that problem is right and they annihilate each other at contact.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Modify them... how? So they don't show kids?
Why the heck do we need that crap? Just toss the idea altogether, as we've recently seen we don't even find crap in the luggage, why bother going high-tech if we can't even deal with the ordinary junk that happens?
Seriously, we're discussing how to better seal the windows of the house to lower our heating bill while we're missing a wall.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I don't know about the UK, but in the US unless an exception is written into the statute (speeding laws, for example) it's still illegal. Former Illinois Governor George Ryan is in Federal prison right now.
However, they could write an exception into the law, but they'd have to write the exception before they could use the scanners.
It seems to me that in the US the TSA shenanigans are blatantly unconstitutional, but it's been a long time since they had any respect for the fourth amendment here. Actually for any of the Constitution at all.
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