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Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws

Posted by samzenpus on from the think-of-the-children dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Unstoppable force, immovable object by hazem · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, this is kind of like when the unstoppble force meets the immovable object.

    I'm sure the solution will be to have TSA officers carefully gird children with special lead loin cloths to cover their naughty bits before they are put through the scanner.

    I missed the boat on buying stock in full-body scanner companies, but I may still be able to make a killing on the lead bathing suit manufacturers.

  2. Re:It's the only logical solution. by Opportunist · · Score: 0, Troll

    Could we start with the ones of my neighbor?

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    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  3. It's ust an excuse for fat adults by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not all images of children is child pornography. Otherwise parents taking pictures of their child in the bath should be arrested. The only reason people are bringing this up now (rather than when this technology was announced) is because it's become a reality that everyone is going to have to do this so all the fat people or people with nasty genitalia don't want stand in one of these machines.