Delhi airport’s electronic eye will strip you naked

Bangalore: It’s a machine that bounces X-rays off your skin to produce a naked image of your body on a computer screen. The device’s graphic projection, from a 1.5 second scan, is meant to help security personnel detect weapons and explosives.
Some may cringe at the thought of being undressed by security personnel using such a machine, but it is a reality that passengers will have to get used to.
With the threat perception growing in India, the GMR Group’s joint-venture enterprise, Delhi International Airports Ltd (DIAL), is installing a new passenger screening machine, the body scanner, at Terminal 2.
The move has elicited mixed reactions. Nivedita Garg, an executive with an international logistics firm, is apprehensive. “It would be an intrusion on my privacy,” she said. “I don’t know how it will be used. I would be a little insecure about it.”
A spokesman for the Central Industrial Security Force said only a shadow image would be produced, and the equipment would be operated by members of the same sex.
16/11/06 Praveena Sharma/Daily News & Analysis

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