Where are body scanners being used at airports?
U.S. The U.S. will have scanners installed in the following airports by the end of this year: Baltimore-Washington, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Dallas/Fort-Worth, Detroit, Miami, Ronald Reagan Washington National, New York John F. Kennedy, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Boston, Indianapolis, New York LaGuardia, Tampa, San Juan, San Francisco, Buffalo, Chicago O’Hare, Richmond, Tulsa, Jacksonville and Raleigh-Durham. Millimeter wave body scanners are used for random screenings, except at Phoenix, where it is used in secondary screening. At Phoenix, New York JFK and Los Angeles, backscatter technology is used for secondary screening. European Union Trials have been conducted at London Heathrow, Amsterdam and Helsinki. The European Commission aims to publish a regulation, due to come into force in April 2010, allowing member states to introduce body scanners. The Commission says it intends to press ahead with the plan in spite of a motion from the European Parliament calling for furth
