Vice-President Siim Kallas addresses the European Parliament on the use of body scanning technology in airport security
In setting out the timetable for the debate on the regulation of body scanning technology (see reference), the Vice-President underlined that "to fight terrorism targeting civil aviation we need a variety of combined and coordinated measures – intelligence, profiling, different search methods and international cooperation."
He stressed that "body scanning technology is not a panacea," and said that questions relating to the value-added of this technology to airport security, as well as health and privacy issues, needed to be looked at very seriously.
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