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To: Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton
Stop the implementation of Full Body Scanners at Domestic Airports
Immediately cease the roll out of Full Body Scanners at Australian Domestic Airports until passenger's privacy concerns and the high detection failure rates can be addressed.
Why is this important?
Full body scanners are invasions of a person's privacy, are unable to tell the difference between a weapon or explosive, and something that is supposed to be on a passangers person such as the below listed items;
-Urinary catheters.
-Incontinence pads.
-Menstrual products.
-Colostomy and ileostomy bags.
-PEG feeding tubes.
-Mastectomy prostheses.
-Certain medication pumps and implanted ports, such as insulin pumps.
-TENS machines.
-Pacemakers.
-The bodies, including genitalia, of transgender and intersex and genderqueer people.
This unfairly targets, humiliates, and isolates women, people with disabilities and medical conditions, and transgender and intersex people, in an effort to give the community a false sense of security that is not support by assessments of this method of screening.
According to a recent audit of scanners used by the TSA in the United States, they are actually inefficient at detecting the weapons and explosives they are meant to detect, failing to detect explosives and weapons 96% of the time.
Furthermore, A study conducted in Germany in 2011, showed a 54% false positive rate, meaning that every second person had to undergo a pat-down after the scan.
It is damning on the technology that one in two people require pat down searches caused by false positives when they are not a danger, while 9 in 10 people actually carrying dangerous items slip through undetected.
This method of scanning's high failure rate, and massive privacy concerns make it untenable as a valid method of protecting passangers, and fails to adequately balance the rights of passangers to privacy and personal dignity with the need to prevent terrorist actions.
-Urinary catheters.
-Incontinence pads.
-Menstrual products.
-Colostomy and ileostomy bags.
-PEG feeding tubes.
-Mastectomy prostheses.
-Certain medication pumps and implanted ports, such as insulin pumps.
-TENS machines.
-Pacemakers.
-The bodies, including genitalia, of transgender and intersex and genderqueer people.
This unfairly targets, humiliates, and isolates women, people with disabilities and medical conditions, and transgender and intersex people, in an effort to give the community a false sense of security that is not support by assessments of this method of screening.
According to a recent audit of scanners used by the TSA in the United States, they are actually inefficient at detecting the weapons and explosives they are meant to detect, failing to detect explosives and weapons 96% of the time.
Furthermore, A study conducted in Germany in 2011, showed a 54% false positive rate, meaning that every second person had to undergo a pat-down after the scan.
It is damning on the technology that one in two people require pat down searches caused by false positives when they are not a danger, while 9 in 10 people actually carrying dangerous items slip through undetected.
This method of scanning's high failure rate, and massive privacy concerns make it untenable as a valid method of protecting passangers, and fails to adequately balance the rights of passangers to privacy and personal dignity with the need to prevent terrorist actions.
How it will be delivered
Via Email to the Minister's Office