Report: Body Scanners
Last year, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) completed a whole body imaging pilot project at the Kelowna airport in British Columbia. The airport, which is Canada's 10th busiest, used one body scanner at an "integrated checkpoint" to screen approximately 32,000 passengers over the course of seven months.
In November of 2009, The Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed an Access to Information request with CATSA seeking a report on this pilot project. While heavily redacted, the report provides anecdotal evidence that the system is far from foolproof, and passengers who were asked to “help” test the technology had various objections to the scans. .
 Final Report: The ProTech Integrated Checkpoint Trial: Kelowna Airport [PDF 2.12MB]
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