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German Activists Protest Body Scanners by Stripping Down

Discover how body scanners at the airport sparked protests in Germany, highlighting privacy concerns from activists in a bold campaign.

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The best way to make a point about privacy and "invasive" body scanners at the airport--is to strip down to your underwear and then publish that video to YouTube so the whole world can see you in your nearly naked glory. Might sound strange at first, but we are covering it in Discoblog, so I guess it worked. Warning: This video has mild nudity and so may be NSFW. German activists from the Pirate Party thought organizing a "fleshmob" of people to strip down to their skivvies and converge on the Berlin-Tegel airport was a great idea. The activists were protesting the use of what the Germans call the Nacktscanner, or naked scanner--a body scanner that may increasingly be used for airport security, in the wake of the botched underwear bombing on Christmas Day. As Wired reported:

The protesters marked their bodies with a number of messages such as, “Something ...

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