Airport body scanners reveal all, but what about when it’s your kid?

Leonora LaPeter Anton
St. Petersburg Times
July 19, 2010

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There’s been lots of talk lately about body scanners — the new airport security tool that allows screeners to see through clothes. People are concerned about privacy, delayed flights, health effects.

Now there’s another concern. What about kids? Do they have to go through this, too? And what are parents’ rights?

A Baltimore family is raising the issue after their 12-year-old daughter was pulled out of line in Tampa and subjected to what they say was an embarrassing and unhealthy scan. The girl was traveling with an adult friend of the family, not her parents.

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This article was posted: Monday, July 19, 2010 at 10:26 am

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