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Vice-President Siim Kallas addresses the European Parliament on the use of body scanning technology in airport security

Vice-President Siim Kallas, EU Commissioner for transport, on February 10 addressed the European Parliament on the use of body scanning technology in airport security, as part of a broader debate on the operation of intelligence services in the context of counter-terrorism strategies.

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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