European lawmakers object to full body scans at airports {Gadling}

Oct 28th 2008 4:14AM In fact the radiation dosage in majority of these equpments is not much more than the natural background radiation. One scan is equivalent to approx. 5 min exposure to natural radiation taking place everywhere.

People are getting higher exposures during the actual flight since the radiation levels are much higher in high altitudes than on the ground.

I do agree that people should have a choice, but using radiation exposure as an excuse is not valid in this case...