Airport body scanners could 'breach human rights'

Airport body scanners, which show the naked form of anyone who passes through them, could breach human rights, according to the UK's "equality watchdog."

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to the Home Secretary of the UK over concerns about the proposed introduction of body scanners at airports. It fears they could breach an individual's right to privacy as laid out in the Human Rights Act.

Earlier this month, Gordon Brown announced that air travellers would see the ''gradual'' introduction of body scanners at airports around Britain.

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