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Originally Posted by Fredd
The same thing happens when crossing by land from, say, the US into Canada. The US authorities direct you to wait inside the building while a couple of them search the car.
In this scenario (US into Canada), wouldn't this be the responsibility of the Canadians?
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We have. From US into Canada (Sidney BC and numerous times at Windsor ON), just a passport check. From Canada into US (Idaho), we were directed to one side but stayed with the car while they checked. At Detroit through the tunnel, just a cursory check with little delay (other than the line, but that's another matter).
I guess to some extent, it depends on the documentation presented to the officers.
When they were conducting the scanner trials at LHR, personal belongings were put on one side and scanned separately when the victim was ready (after the personal scan IIRC). Has anybody with the scanned experience at T4 this week noticed something similar?
Curiously, 'security' people are sometimes aware of security. I imagine they would not want to run the risk of pax being permanently deprived of their belongings.
When they were having the trials at LHR, it wasn't always the way suggested in the first paragraph above.
With regard to temporarily separating passengers from belongings -- with the belongings out of the owner's sight -- "security" people at the airports generally don't care about that when they are the ones in charge of making that happen. Permanently depriving passengers of some harmless items also doesn't seem to bother them too much either as "security" cause that to happen daily there still.
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When they were having the trials at LHR, it wasn't always the way suggested in the first paragraph above.
When they were doing the trials, the passenger got to see the image generated and the same-sex officer analyzing the image. Some passengers must have freaked out with the images, and now they hide both the scans and the person seeing the scan.
When they were doing the trials, the passenger got to see the image generated and the same-sex officer analyzing the image. Some passengers must have freaked out with the images, and now they hide both the scans and the person seeing the scan.
Yes.
During the trials, the same-sex-as-passenger "security" perverts were defaulting to recall/show the passengers' backside image instead of the frontal nudity images when the passengers wanted to see the images generated. That option at LHR is gone now, as you correctly note above.
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During the trials, the same-sex-as-passenger "security" perverts were defaulting to recall/show the passengers' backside image instead of the frontal nudity images when the passengers wanted to see the images generated. That option at LHR is gone now, as you correctly note above.
In other words, they got more perverted and less people know about it.
There's a discussion here of your rights and recourse if you are denied the right to travel by common carrier in the UK (or other countries) because you refuse to "consent" to a virtual strip search.
I just went through the Heathrow terminal 4 checkpoint, and was relieved not to be selected for a full body scan, because I really did not want to find out what they would do when I refused. The real good news is that I have visually swept over the checkpoint repeatedly and see nothing that looks like a WBI. Maybe they got rid of it??
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I just went through the Heathrow terminal 4 checkpoint, and was relieved not to be selected for a full body scan, because I really did not want to find out what they would do when I refused. The real good news is that I have visually swept over the checkpoint repeatedly and see nothing that looks like a WBI. Maybe they got rid of it??
I hope they got rid of the nude-o-scope! I fly into LHR next Friday, and leave on the 21st. Hopefully I will be able to report the same good news!!
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I hope they got rid of the nude-o-scope! I fly into LHR next Friday, and leave on the 21st. Hopefully I will be able to report the same good news!!
WBI is nowhere visible at the terminal 4 checkpoint - I was looking out for it. Unless they have it hidden behind a partition somewhere, they must have removed it.
