BODY scanners being trialled at a German airport ahead of a planned nationwide roll-out were so inaccurate that the whole scheme has been scrapped, a government official has announced. The so-called backscatter scanners had an error rate of 54 percent during their year-long trial at Hamburg Airport, The Local reported. The controversial screening devices are similar to the "naked scanners" already in the US at several major airports. But the German models proved unusable, returning false results triggered by folds in clothing and even by perspiration
...read more>>>...
