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Released: July 18, 2011
U.S. court upholds use of airport body scanners
Source: Frank Polich, Reuters
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the use of full-body scanners to screen air travellers, but said the Transportation Security Administration
should have sought public comment before deploying them.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the machines, known as Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT.L), were not an unconstitutional search and declined to halt their use despite TSA’s failure to follow proper procedure.
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