The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned.

Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to "virtual strip-searching" and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved.

The Department for Transport confirmed that the "child porn" problem was among the "legal and operational issues
New scanners break child porn laws | Politics | The Guardian