Word: scanners
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Last week’s attack was the first in a series of recent knife-related incidents in the Square. A police scanner chatter issued yesterday stated that a man was stabbed in the neck by an unidentified individual on Dunster Street in Harvard Square around 3:00 p.m. Another chatter soon followed, stating that there were two men in the area with knives: one was said to be carrying a butterfly knife, while the other was identified as wielding a box cutter...
Some E.U. airports, including Schiphol in Amsterdam and Heathrow in London, already offer passengers the option of walking through a body scanner instead of undergoing a physical pat-down search. But in 2008, when the European Commission suggested devising regulations on the use of scanners in the E.U., European Parliament members voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution calling the machines an affront to passengers' rights. The Commission has since launched a study on whether the scanners violate people's privacy, but the results have yet to be released...