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"Mr President, as rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, I represent the freedoms of passengers, of Europeans. It is thanks to the European Parliament that X-rays have been banned from body scanners and that passengers have a free choice of whether to pass through a body scanner or not.
Yet we also clearly argued against the use of photographs and against there being security staff, male or female, sitting further up the chain looking at photographs of naked passengers. These arguments were not accepted. Why were they not accepted? The reason is that commercial interests come before private interests, before privacy. It is a little strange to know that the technology exists to use this equipment entirely without photographs but that privacy has been sacrificed because we apparently do not want to price certain companies out of the market. It cannot be right that our privacy and our freedoms should have to give way to companies which apparently are not innovating enough.
I would very much like to hear from the European Commission as to why it has chosen to bow to these companies. As I see it, the world has turned upside down. We could still do something about it, but no, the European Commission has decided in all its wisdom that these are merely technical measures and that legislation on this matter is not needed. Body scanners at airports is just the beginning. There are already body scanners at the Supreme Court in Paris. Who can tell us that companies or institutions, such as large museums, will not introduce such equipment in the future? How do we guarantee that citizens, visitors to museums, passengers at airports and train passengers will not be stared at by somebody further down the line? It is not necessary, we should not be doing it, and I would appreciate it if you would respect our wishes in this regard."@en1
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