{"id":169,"date":"2010-09-28T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/germany-unveils-controversial-full-body-airport-scanners\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T12:05:00","slug":"germany-unveils-controversial-full-body-airport-scanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/germany-unveils-controversial-full-body-airport-scanners\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Unveils Controversial Full-Body Airport Scanners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nGermany started a six-month trial run of the much talked about full-body scanners Monday at one of the country&#39;s major airports.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo of the controversial devices were installed at the airport in Hamburg, located in northern Germany, according to Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe scanners will be voluntary during the test period. The scanners produce an image outlining the passenger&#39;s body to check for any hidden items underneath their clothes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAirport scanners are already installed in airports throughout Britain. What&#39;s more, the U.S. has plans to see 405 of the machines working in airports by the end of the year. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGerman politicians have come out strong against the use of full-body scanners, calling them an unnecessary invasion of privacy.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany started a six-month trial run of the much talked about full-body scanners Monday at one of the country&#39;s major airports. &nbsp; Two of the controversial devices were installed at the airport in Hamburg, located in northern Germany, according to Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.&nbsp; &nbsp; The scanners will be voluntary during the test period. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}