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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (15) Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Dutch, Nigerians to use full-body scans for flights | Video 3:39pm EST Afghan suicide blast kills eight U.S. civilians 2:54pm EST Bombs kill more than 30 in Iraq | Video 11:15am EST Hundreds of thousands at pro-government rallies in Iran 2:27pm EST JetBlue plane makes emergency landing in Bermuda 11:42am EST Tiger Woods scandal cost shareholders up to $12 billion 29 Dec 2009 Chavez says Obama "illusion" over 28 Dec 2009 Employers see uptick in hiring in 2010 29 Dec 2009 Italy toy store opens at 4 a.m. to help frantic mother 26 Dec 2009 "Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife 17 Sep 2007 Pictures Pictures of the year: Technology A look at the year's best science and technology photos. Slideshow Wide use of U.S. airport body scanners depends on Obama Daniel Trotta NEW YORK Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:06pm EST Related News Q+A: U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security under scrutiny 2:53pm EST Related Video Airport body scanner "essential" Tue, Dec 29 2009 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The path toward rolling out wider use of whole-body security scanners in U.S. airports runs through the White House. U.S. | Barack Obama The failed Christmas Day attack aboard a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner has created congressional calls for greater use of body scanners that advocates say would have detected non-metallic items such as the explosives an Islamic militant from Nigeria is accused of smuggling on board. Dutch authorities said on Wednesday Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, where the Nigerian suspect made a connection, will begin using full-body scanners within three weeks. U.S. President Barack Obama could expedite such a deployment because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) don't need legislation from Congress to start using the devices at any of the 560 U.S. airports with scheduled airline service. Current use is limited to a 19 airports and is optional -- passengers can choose to undergo a pat-down instead. A greater U.S. government shift toward using the high-tech devices could create a boom for makers of security imaging products, and it has already created a speculative spike in share prices in some companies. It would also set off opposition from civil libertarians who consider the body scanners an invasion of privacy that is akin to a strip search -- a claim hotly contested by security advocates. The devices detect objects concealed under clothes and can produce detailed images of the body. Operators in a separate room view images that blur the face and genitalia. In a pilot program implemented after the September 11 attacks of 2001, TSA operates 40 millimeter wave technology units at 19 airports and has purchased 150 backscatter, low-level X-ray machines that will be deployed over the next year at a cost of $130,000 to $160,000 per unit. In addition, TSA has plans and funding to buy another 300 units in 2010. Because ceramic knives and explosive powders and liquids can pass through standard metal detectors without setting off alarms, authorities might consider forcing passengers to pass through whole-body imaging machines. "That would be a DHS decision. Clearly we would work with DHS, the White House and our congressional partners on security decisions," TSA spokesman Greg Soule said on Tuesday. Asked about the Dutch decision on Wednesday, Soule said TSA had no immediate comment. Congress could get involved. Legislation that would limit full-body imaging to secondary searches passed the U.S. House of Representatives, but has not passed the Senate. But even the co-sponsor of the amendment, Representative Jason Chaffetz, said: "I support the machines being widely deployed." "The White House has tip-toed around it," said a congressional aide familiar with security issues who spoke on condition of anonymity. "They have invested pennies, basically, in relation to what it's worth. They are trying to be responsive to the ACLU and the people who are some of the bread and butter of the Democratic support network." ACLU INCREDULOUS The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says it does not trust the privacy safeguards, saying the images that depict body shapes and private parts would still exist. "If a celebrity goes through a scanner that kind of image could end up on the Internet," said Jay Stanley, an ACLU privacy expert. "We would certainly all be safer on airlines if we all flew naked," he said. Investors bid up the stocks of imaging companies like American Science and Engineering, OSI Systems, and ICx Technologies Inc between 10 percent and 26 percent on Monday and Tuesday, the first two trading days after the incident. Shares in the larger and more diversified L-3 Communications Holdings Inc climbed 1.7 percent, while smaller privately held companies like Millivision Technologies are hoping to take advantage of the interest to find sources of venture capital or private equity investment. Millivision, an 11-employee company based in Massachusetts, says its $180,000 units can operate in "privacy mode" where the operator sees only a video image that highlights concealed items in red. "I'm comfortable having my wife or children go through the Millivision system, but I would be a little bit concerned about having them go through a system that did not have privacy," said Paul Nicholas, president and CEO of the company. (Additional reporting by Basil Katz in New York and Kyle Peterson in Chicago; Writing by Daniel Trotta) U.S. Barack Obama Comments See All Comments (15) | Post Comment Dec 30, 2009 Reuters could try reporting the news. The bomber didn’t go through security and didn’t even have a passport. He was lead past all security to the plane by a sharp dressed man. How would a body scanner have helped? Bisky Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 He won’t use them. He is afraid of offending someone?? This Pres is such a coward. He knows we are at war with these people but he is doing as little as he can to try to protect us>> Next time, let’s not elect a community organizer to run our country ok?? releggneh Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 like everything else the government is doing-invading our privacy more and more all in the name of security. i don’t believe this (the scanner) will be any more effective than the security procedures already in place. i believe that we will all eventually be forced to have id chips implanted, like they already do with animals. we’ll get a pat on the head and an “atta boy/girl”, after all, it’s for our safety, right? spasegrl Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 Why the concern for privacy? Faces cannot be made out because they look like extraterrestrials. Who are they? cwh Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 At what point do we say “enough”. What is reasonably safe? Nothing is completely safe. One man (a nut case as usual) tries something as rash as this and we over reached. I fly out of Detroit all the time as does my family. We have been on that same NW flight dozens of times. My Daughter flies back and forth and has booked her return from the holidays. I am always concerned for my Daughter’s well being and her safety is paramount to me but having line ups for 4 hours and taking naked pictures does not make me feel she is safer. You can have nothing on you lap when you fly and you can not go to the bathroom. Stop the madness… My Daughter goes to University in London and uses the subway all the time. What do I say to her, be careful but we can not live in fear. We must use the plains and subways and trains. We can not let one incident control so many lives. We must be reasonable with ourselves and protect our rights to live, travel and work. One_Man Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 The “sharp dressed man” myth has long since been debunked. The bomber did and does have a Nigerian passport, he would have had to show it both in Lagos and again at the gate in Schiphol because he was not transiting between two Schengen Convention countries. He did not go through a full body scanner because Schiphol had a (misguided) policy not to use them on US-bound passengers for fear of litigious tantrums or something. Hawthorn Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 So how is adding these scanners to our airports going to help protect us from people who got on a plane in another country and are getting off in the US? Seems to me that what should be looked at is why this persons right enter our country rather than how he could have gotten on the plan with materials to make a bomb. What does you think??? Meh Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 I like the idea of everyone flying naked. solas Report As Abusive Dec 30, 2009 The purpose of ‘terrorism’ is not to kill but to create fear! The more we over-react, the better the terrorists have done their jobs. Stop playing into the ‘terrorists’ hands! Began Report As Abusive See All Comments (15) Add a Comment More from Reuters GMAC to get $3.5 billion more in government aid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - GMAC Financial Services is expected to get about $3.5 billion of additional U.S. government aid to help the troubled lender absorb mortgage losses, a financial industry source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Afghan suicide blast kills eight U.S. civilians The coming Great Inflation, real or imagined Saudis quit Caribbean oil storage Wall Street dips as investors reap profits Wide use of U.S. airport body scanners depends on Obama | Video » More Top News Body scans are Obama's call The Dutch are doing it. So what's taking the U.S. so long to make airport body scanners mandatory? Full Article | Video Dutch airport to use full-body scan Slideshow: The science of security U.S. Rolfe Winkler: Move your money Boycotting "too big to fail" banks is a great idea -- so long as investors remember that banks aren't the only ones responsible for the crisis. 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