Do Airport Body Scanners Break Child Porn Laws?

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Hey, I just figured out how to get obscenely rich off airport body scanners - I'll get a job as a screener, covertly save scans, then sell scans of 'celebrities' to the tabloids

Am I a freaking genius or what!

Honestly, as sick as that is, it would work.

But I'd rather get a patdown than have some underpaid security agent see me in the nude.

Child pornography involves images or films depicting children (underage minors) engaging in sexually explicit acitivty.

A full body scan in an airport regardless of age does not fall under this category. It serves a security purpose to stop terrorist attacks. This idea of full body scans at airports being considered child pornography because there are minor passengers is ridiculous and should rightfully be thrown out of court.

I think this would be legal provided that this is fulfilled:

There should be checks that the scans will be strictly used for security, and not for one's personal pleasures (ie porn).

And unfortunately, like it or not, with increasing incidence of globalization and non-state violence, such checks will be instituted...

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The scans are destroyed soon after being analyzed. Also, the humans who analyze the scans will be monitored.

Ultrasound techs and X-ray techs are also themselves screened for such nastiness. And they can get a lot more info about you and your medical history than any airport worker.

Yup, I also hope our privacy can be protected... Sad.

I don't understand why they can't pull a "magical girl" sequence, and have the computers automatically "fill in" your outline. Turn all flesh a monotone lime green, like a ipod ad.

I wonder if they altered the image, used an unusual colour palette or such, if that would be a problem. Something like ducky9924 said.

I am thinking inverting the colours, adding a tone to them so that if you tried re-inverting the colours you will get a horrible coloured picture and then increasing the contrast between flesh colours and hard plastics and metals.

Silver_Meteor- pornography does not need to be sexual. Playboy magazine, for example, has no sexually explicit material, just naked women. It is still pornography. By this definition images of under-age people naked are also pornography.

These scanners are wrong. It's an invasion of privacy.
Chemical sensors can detect explosives and other contraband, foreign policy can do the rest.

By what means are they "screened"?

1. PETN is next to impossible to detect with chemical sensors and 2 the scanners are voluntary, I predict when people are faced with a choice between a 2 min line for the millimeter-wave scanner and a 45 minute line for the full body frisk for a flight that boards in 30 minutes the scanner is going to be the preferred choice.

I think technically, it does violate the law. However, this is a time where common sense steps in and says "lol no". Besides, the pictures the scanners take are hardly as "revealing" as, say, a nude photograph.

And furthermore, what does it matter if it's "child pornography"? If it could be considered any kind of pornography, surely that's problematic enough?

I agree.

And besides, if I were 10 years old, I would rather be strip-searched in an American airport than be serving in the Sudanese Armed Forces.

These sensors don't scan shoes. There's a way around any sysem.

It's why I was suggesting an alternative. Personally I think The current stuff in place (bag xray, metal detector gates) is enough.

No. There are sites full of naked children under the pretext of "appreciating innocence" and whatnot, and they are perfectly legal. If those are legal, this is an absolute nonissue.

I am not worried about anyone seeing my fat backside.

If I were a terrorist I would say "Gee, it is too much trouble to try for aircraft. I will just blow up a train like London or Madrid or set off a big car bomb in the main street like Baghdad"

It would be so easy. If it is so easy then why isn't it happening every week like in Iraq or Afghanistan?

If there were terrorists under every bed and behind every corner then why aren't they causing total havoc?