An article in the London Guardian poses the argument that the full body scanners that airports have pondered using as an added security measure, are graphic enough that minors should be excused under child pornography laws. Although the images are of course not used in a pornographic manner, the images clearly display the genitalia and full bodies of their subjects, which many view as a privacy violation . Since these would technically be naked images of minors, they are illegal, because the scanners would be breaching the Protection of Children Act of 1978 under which it is illegal to create an indecent image or "pseudo image" of a child. The recent discussions of alternate security measures have come to head after the failed terrorist attack in December.
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