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e it the edge it needed to survive but not even 9 11 nor the attempts of the bumbling shoe bomber proved enough to politically bypass both health and privacy fears the product was good by far the best below clothing imaging device ever to come onto the market but politicians and airport owners alike all prefered to err on the side of caution in 2003 rapiscan met its first real competitor in the form of the l3 millimeter wave scanner l3 born of ex lehman brothers and lockheed martin chiefs already had the lobbying muscle and managed to persuade uk transport police to trial their product at london rail hubs their scanner was nowhere near as efficient as the original rapiscan device and it was considerably more expensive but l3 had the contacts and osi systems was gradually being dragged down by rapiscan s failure to compete against the newcomers by 2009 terror fever sparked by the september 2001 televised terror spectacular was beginning to lose airtime on the bbc and cnn and airports could no longer see the impetus to install such invasive technology without the green light from their governments heathrow and manchester airports had tentetively agreed to run trials with the rapiscan scanner but no one else they like everyone awaited some sort of political seal of approval in europe the european commission s siim kallas attempted to push legislation through the parliament but lack of knowledge about the scanners both for and against failed to achieve the votes necessary the scanners remained in limbo while osi systems share price plummeted so rapiscan met with the chertoff group headed by patriot act author michael chertoff and comprised mostly of ex cia heads it was an act of desperation on rapiscan s part and akin to having a sit down with protection racketeering mafia bosses read more then the underwear bomber changed everything siim kallas political drudge and shuffling goon unelelected overseer of european union transport policy siim kallas has remained the central keyholder to the scanners political limbo european opinion on the subject has been fundamental to both for and against camps in the body scanner argument even the us has waited baited breath to see if the old continent would approve the technology post underwear bomber incident secretary of dhs janet napolitano finally decided to bypass the european commission and got together personally with eu ministers at two meetings held in spain in early 2010 the then spanish minister of infrastructure josé blanco who had originally refused to adopt a scanner policy said that scanner implementation would be inevitable kallas and the eu continued to dither common rules were demanded and after dragging his heels for a year and half the commissioner finally put through his long awaited standards on scanner use he did so slyly when meps were leaving for their summer holidays using the comitology process in which meps can only vote against a commission bill in their vacational absence few did the new legislation outlawed rapiscan s backscatter xray scanner on health fears and demanded alternative screening methods for those not wanting to pass through the scanners however it was not until late 2011 when the legislation finally came into effect until kallas called on scenhir one of the ec s health risk assessment teams to verify his claims against backscatter technology as a health risk something they too failed to confirm either way by mid 2011 manchester airport in the uk already had already overconfidently invested in a total of 19 of the rapiscan scanners while heathrow s backscatter scanners were coming to the end of their 5 year useful life with the new legislation in place heathrow decided to replace their old rape n scam scanners with the l3 model which evaded health risk evaluation through a technicality of the classification of the type of energy it uses the uk secretary of state for transport eager to defend manchester s investment met in private with siim kallas just days before the new legislation came into effect kallas subsequently signed off an agreement to exempt manchester from the eu ban for another year i wonder what was said at that meeting to change the commissioner s mind since then kallas has continuously failed to answer parliamentary questions on scanner policy and his turning a blind eye to the uk government s flouting of eu law inconsistency and total lack of coherent policy at the uk department of transport in 2012 when manchester was finally forced to get rid of its 19 backscatter scanner investment citing the new eu rules they only replaced them with 3 millimetre wave scanners why so few after lauding the importance of scanning with 19 rapiscan scanners before could the purchase of the new scanners simply have been a token gesture after totally ignoring the results of a public consultation which showed an 80 rejection of the uk s body scanning code of practice ex secretary of state for transport justine greening ploughed ahead with her plan to install scanners at even more uk airports stansted glasgow edinburgh london city and birmingham were among airports apparently forced by the dft to initiate scanner trials but with only one scanner at stansted compared to the 19 that manchester had consistency in policy remains strangely lacking stranger still is how london luton airport the uk s 5th busiest airport still evades scanner installation this apparent lack of consistency begs the question of whether the uk government has any type of real policy regarding anti terrorism measures one consistent aspect of british body scanner use is the no scan no fly policy flouting eu legislation which demands an alternative screening method for passengers who wish to opt out the uk remains the only country in the eu prepared to break european law and force both adults and children through the scanner blackmailing passengers with the threat of losing their flight commissioner kallas remains silent on the issue in spite of continued demands by meps to explain his silence is he complicit or is he incompetent only time will tell napolitano bows out while the backscatter timebomb keeps ticking right from the start janet napolitano head of the us department of homeland security has been the biggest fan of full body scanning overseeing the installation of hundreds of the devices at all us airports in late 2012 the tsa quietly admitted that they were to scrap their multi million dollar investment in rapiscan s xray backscatter scanners in favour of l3 s model which now came with privacy enhanced software that rapiscan had been unable to develop but l3 s software had been proven to be duff on countless occassions by the dhs s own agents who during tests had been able to easily evade detection of their hand guns through the scanners something was amiss more recently and to the total surprise of most in government napolitano has announced her plan to resign her post at the dhs in favour of a university job the eu s rejection of backscatter scanners had been due to health fears as well as the uk s reason for respecting only this part of the eu s new rules on scanners could napolitano kallas and the uk s department for transport be sitting on information about the backscatter scanners could they all be preparing for a coming storm one related to health fears that kallas cited in spite of scenhir s assurances update reports are emerging that janet napolitano has just been accosted at the hands of her own tsa agents well it put a smile on my face watch this space and watch those cancer figures i smell a news story is in the post share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading 1 comment from european scanners health effects confusion and contradiction a story of utter inconsistency in the body scanner programme november 17 2012 tags airport security australia backscatter birmingham department for transport edinburgh glasgow manchester millimeter wave millimetre wave scanners stansted tsa over the last ten years the global security market has grown nearly tenfold from some 10 billion to a market size of some 100 billion in 2011 with an annual turnover of around 30 billion in the eu however as recent market evolutions indicate the global market shares of european companies could drop significantly over the next years if no action is taken to enhance their competitiveness come be screened confusion and contradiction this is the only possible way to describe the current global situation regarding full body scanners in spite of claims by the us department of homeland security and the european commission to be striving for a harmonized approach to security the global position could not be more disjointed the us for example has body scanners at all of its international airports and offers passengers a possibility to opt out while the uk with its so called special relationship with the us has body scanners now at only seven of its international airports and no possibility to opt out australia also has a no scan no fly policy but excludes children from patdowns and scans while the us and uk make a special point of fully screening child passengers harmonised then there is the on going saga of millimetre wave scanners after german and italian authorities had trialled this technology and found it to be slow ineffective and in the case of hamburg airport trials useless the uk and australia began installing the scanners referring to them as essential go figure the last few months have seen a string of news events around the body scanner debacle that suggest all is not right with the orwellian strip searcher backscatter gets the red card official rapiscan example image finally it seems that the dangers of using backscatter x ray scanners have been heeded by the politicians on a global scale a reason for some of us to celebrate perhaps the excuse given in the us was that they the tsa wanted to replace the backscatter scanners with more privacy friendly scanners rapiscan the main producer of the backscatter scanners is currently being investigated following being accused of falsifying information regarding their attempts at so called privacy friendly software all this only a year after they were discovered hiding information on the levels of radiation emitted by the secure 1000 scanner all the while the so called useless millimetre wave scanners the ones that failed to detect the underwear bomber in 2009 are being spread at a breathtaking rate to all us and uk airports although the uk and us feel the need to protect their airspace from suicide bombers with these so called essential body scanners for flights leaving their shores there remains no such scanning procedures on most incoming flights including such important source airports as hamburg paris brussels madrid or milan considering that this latest push to install scanners was based on the apparent threat posed by terrorists with explosives in their underwear on incoming flights i am left asking just how essential these intrusive scanners really are and let s not forget perimeter security at the same airports with scanners while airports may be investing millions in keeping potential terrorists from jumping the fence their technology has been proven again to be useless as demonstrated recently by a new york man found strolling accross the runway at jfk the manchester airport case man spokeswoman in 2011 tries to sell the public the idea of radiation scanners after heathrow decided to discontinue their use of rapiscan s backscatter x ray scanners due to pressure from their customers and the fear of negative health effects manchester airport with its 19 180 000 ionising radiation scanners was left as the only place in europe still with these scanners they had already tried to justify their choice of scanner by claiming that the alternative millimetre wave scanners did not meet their needs but now we find a situation in which the european commission has forced man to deinstall their radiation scanners and the airport s management as a result has now opted for exactly the type of scanner they had originally claimed were no good then there is the european commission ec as previously mentioned on this blog the ever inept siim kallas commissioner of transport at the ec banned the backscatter x ray scanners in 2011 and only then called on scenhir the scientific committee to test if his accusation against this technology had any validity the committee came back with its usual ditheringly vague response that could have been interpreted either way but siim said nothing manchester celebrated the results of the scenhir studies as a victory for the radiation no pasa nada camp and the commissioner made no move whatsoever further roll outs in the uk 3 years late essential that is the adjective most frequently used to justify the latest deployment of body scanners at edinburgh glasgow and birmingham airports the first deployments in more than 2 years the reasoning is still the same the underwear bomber incident of december 2009 but is it really that essential that only 7 uk airports are using scanners three years later and that is without mentioning the incoming flights without any body scanning processes the bbc has just announced the latest scanner installation at london s stansted airport an l3 millimetre wave scanner with automatic threat detection atd software that enables the airport to scan passengers without having to show the naked images the technology is exactly the same that was trialled at paris cdg and discontinued after 6 months exactly the same as was trialled at milan s malpensa airport and claimed to be slow and ineffective by the italian aviation authority and exactly the same trialled at hamburg airport and dubbed useless by the german police after it gave an 80 false positive rate the only difference is that at stansted the scans will be compulsory the illegality of the uk no scan no fly policy it s not us it s the government that is and always has been the defence of uk airports operating body scanners and the no scan no fly policy their pr departments work overtime to overstate that it s not theirs but the government s fault that there must be a no sympathy politic against those who attempt to defend their basic rights but if the government insist that an airport must rabbit punch every other passenger before they board their flight should they still do it the no scan no flight policy is blatantly illegal currently a woman who works with the islamic human rights council is suing the uk government over her being denied the right to fly when she refused to be scanned at manchester airport at stansted where the atd software is in use the flight ban on potential abstainers is coercive and against recently introduced european 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