LIVERPOOL’S John Lennon Airport is on a collision course with the Government over controversial body scanners that produce a naked image of passengers.
JLA is refusing to give a commitment to install the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), which Gordon Brown has insisted is vital to defeat terrorists.
The Prime Minister backed the scanners – which allow security staff to detect explosives hidden on a passenger's body – after the Christmas Day attempted bombing on a flight to Detroit.
Yesterday, the Department for Transport (DfT) ordered all airports to install them before the summer holiday season, stating they must be in place "in the coming months".
In a statement, Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said: "Given the current security threat level, the Government believes it essential to start introducing scanners immediately."
But there have been protests that the naked images produced breach privacy rules and even child pornography laws, that ban the creation of indecent images of youngsters.
Electromagnetic waves, that can see through clothing, are beamed onto passengers to create a 3D image, seen by a single security officer in a remote location.
The images are not stored.
