Are we going to see these kind of somewhat intrusive body scanners and so forth?
But what everyone wants to know is which airports have the full-body scanners in operation.
Body scanners are to be introduced at Heathrow Airport in about three weeks, Mr Johnson said.
Among the measures, she said, was the installation of body scanners in some prisons.
And this month fresh measures were introduced with the widespread roll-out of full-body scanners.
Critics, however, warn that full-body scanners should not be the only answer to continued airport security problems.
First of all, in airports people will see gradually being brought in the use of full body scanners.
The European Union issued a ruling this week that bans X-ray body scanners in all European airports.
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Earlier, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave the go-ahead for full body scanners to be introduced at Britain's airports.
But he asked whether full-body scanners would have been effective in detecting the substances allegedly carried by Mr Abdulmutallab.
Body scanners will be tested in two Northern Ireland prisons in an effort to prevent the smuggling of contraband.
The US high court also denied the petition of a Florida man challenging the use of full-body scanners at airports.
Privacy-conscious travelers may cringe to think of the full-body scanners finding their way into dozens of airport checkpoints around the country.
Ter Horst acknowledged that the systems currently in place are "not watertight, " which is why the body scanners are being introduced.
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The change also will likely squelch pilot complaints about going through full-body scanners, some of which emit low levels of radiation.
Can we at least get some flashing lights on our body scanners?
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How do you feel about the use of full-body scanners at airports?
Back in January, the Transportation Safety Agency (TSA) announced that its controversial full body scanners were going the way of the Dodo.
"The introduction of these body scanners would certainly have helped in detecting that he was carrying something on his body, " she said.
CNN: Dutch, Nigerians to use full body scans for air travelers
Most countries do not use body scanners, he said, preferring to use a combination of metal detection and technology that can identify explosives.
Last year, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began installing two types of full body scanners at airport security checkpoints across the country.
After the Christmas airplane bomb scare, full-body scanners have been getting lots of attention as a way to make plane travel safer.
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Also Wednesday, the airport authority in Nigeria, where AbdulMutallab's flight to Amsterdam originated, announced plans to add body scanners to its security system.
According to the first ever nationwide sizing survey using 3D body scanners, both typical waist-lines and height have increased over the last 30 years.
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will begin using the full-body scanners on all passengers taking flights to the United States, the Dutch interior minister said Wednesday.
Millimetre wave body scanners will be used in both Magilligan Prison and Hydebank Wood Young Offenders' Centre in a pilot project during the summer.
Opt-out day, a protest against the TSA's full-body scanners and more intensive pat-downs planned for the busiest 24 hours of Thanksgiving travel, came and went.
You use full-body scanners, they're going to do something else, " said Schneier, who is the author of a number of security-related books, including "Beyond Fear.
America is speeding up the introduction of controversial new full-body scanners.
Forty body scanners are currently in use at 19 U.S. airports.
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