Apparently I can't opt out of a full body scan.

[andrewducker]

When I flew to Belfast I was asked to stand inside a full-body scanner. So I did, because I completely wasn't expecting to be asked (and was curious as to what I'd see).

Having checked, it turns out that it wouldn't have mattered what I wanted - there is no right to opt-out in the UK.

The image produced wasn't one of the ones that produces a naked image - the display showed a cartoony image of a person, which could then have something superimposed over it to show anything it picked up. Which, in this case, it didn't.

I _think_, although I'm not sure, that the scanners are different from the millimeter wave ones that are now banned in Europe - the last paragraph of this article seems to indicate that in any case.

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[ironjeff]

I think you have your techs backwards... Millimeter imagers are replacing back scatter ones here in the States, since they don't involve any level of ionizing radiation. The BS machines are so poorly designed (from a radiation safety viewpoint) that our FDA wouldn't approve them, TSA sidestepped the original regs that would've required FDA approval...