I read this great article on the BBC website this week, regarding alleged plans to install X-Ray scanners as CCTV in key places to detect terrorist actions. Firstly I’ve seen this technology in action and it is COOL - it’s not X-Ray in the traditional “broken limb” sense of the word, but the use of high frequency waves that penetrate clothing but not skin and bones.
Personally I think that if this technology is ready (the machine I saw was pretty big, you can read more about it on Qinetiq’s website) then why not utilise it to make the streets safer? I don’t carry weapons about so I have no problem being scanned by the machines, and if everyone else on the tube has also been scanned then I won’t feel so nervous when I see a shifty looking bloke skulking in the corner of a carriage with a holdall. Sure it could be considered a violation of privacy but so is being blown to bits for someone else’s cause, so you have to fight fire with fire.
And of course, on a lighter note, it means that those Beano X-Ray specs are one step closer to reality, imagine the possibilities….. 
