Dutch to use body scanners for US flights

Article reports that Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has made full body scanners mandatory for US-bound passengers, December 2009, in a decision that will put pressure on other airports to adopt similar security measures in the wake of the foiled US terror attack on the 25 December 2009 on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

On the 1 January 2010 United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the UK would 'move quickly' to enhance airport security after the 'wake-up call' of the Detroit attack.

Note also that in 2008/09 the European Commission carried out a Consultation called 'The impact of the use of body scanners in the field of aviation security on human rights, privacy, personal dignity, health and data protection', the outcome of which had not been announced by the end of 2009.

BBC News, 30.12.09: Body scanners to be used at Dutch airport http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8435148.stm

BBC News, 1.1.10: Gordon Brown orders airport security review http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8436758.stm

NRC Handelsblad, 31.12.09: Controversial scanners will be used on Amsterdam-US flights http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2448251.ece/Controversial_scanners_will_be_used_on_Amsterdam-US_flights

ESO: Background information: Aviation Security: Workshop on body scanners http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-aviation-security-workshop-on-body-scanners/

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air/security/security_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air/security/security_en.htm

European Parliament: Press Release, 23.10.08: Body scanners at airports: MEPs say that fundamental rights under threat http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?language=EN&type=IM-PRESS&reference=20081022IPR40394

European Commission: Consultation: The impact of the use of body scanners in the field of aviation security on human rights, privacy, personal dignity, health and data protection, 2009 http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air/consultations/2009_02_19_body_scanners_en.htm

France24, 8.1.10: France to introduce body scans for US-bound passengers http://www.france24.com/en/20100108-bussereau-full-body-scans-airport-security-france-passengers-usa-cdg

Deutsche Welle, 7.1.10: Spain calls for common EU stance on airport body scanners http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5098288,00.html

Spiegel Online International, 30.12.09: Germany Reconsiders Controversial Airport Security Measure http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,669574,00.html

BBC News, 7.1.10: EU members divided over airport body scanners http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8446604.stm

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