After a six-month test, Italy’s government will drop the use of full-body scanners for security checks in airports, judging them slow and ineffective, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Thursday.
The scanners in the airports of Rome, Venice and the southern city of Palermo are no longer in use, and Milan’s airport is likely to stop using the machines in the near future.
“We didn’t get good results from body scanners during testing, it takes a long time to examine a person, more than with a manual inspection,” said Vito Riggio, the president of Italy’s aviation authority.
Officials also believe measures taken to address privacy concerns over the use of the scanners have dampened the machines’ effectiveness at locating arms and explosives, Corriere della Sera reported.
At least some people have common sense unlike the TSA. This is a waste of the taxpayers money.
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#20 – I thought the guy who looks at the pictures was supposed to be isolated from the scanee. I assumed so no one could hear him laugh… or gag.
Talk about security “theater” – in the photo the TSA officer is examining the scan of someone other than the subject.
If the TSA puts this much attention in their demonstrations for CBS imagine what the “intellectually disabled” screeners at the airport are doing!
They have to shrink to the size of sunglasses for this to be a real money maker.
Good point Chris (#23) : In fact, when I was a kid you could buy those x-ray glasses in the back of a comic book for half a buck. Probably work just as well…
Besides the Italians have always loved a “manual inspection.”
That’s a spicy meat ball!
You know, I used to come here to read hard-hitting tech coverage and opinions. Where did it all go? Love your work, John, but Dvorak.org seems like a website without a direction lately.
These made as much sense as the million dollar donut machines at Krispy Kreme, when a $5 aluminum donut shooter worked just as well.