Am I the only one who really doesn't care about this? Wouldn't it dramatically reduce the waiting times at airports, whilst cutting out the need to be frisked if you set off the metal detectors? Plus these aren't some kind of 'x-ray spex', it isn't possible to see through clothes and get a perfect picture of a naked body. It is designed to see things that AREN'T part of your body.

Jay, London, UK

I hate the regular cameras, I hate the flying cameras, I hate the cameras on the traffic wardens hats and I hate the nudist cameras. I think people will complain a lot more once they start being hauled off the railway platforms and searched. Do we have an option here to just leave or is it a compulsory search? I don't remember being asked about this either, it is supposed to be a Democracy and this is my civil liberty. If it is for our own good then why weren't we asked? Maybe we should run a campaign to spy on the people spying on us!

Edward, Dover, Kent

Everyone seems to be complaining a lot... I'm sure there'd be many more complaints following a terrorist attack if we all knew there was someway the police could forsee it and yet didn't.
I have nothing to hide, and I care more about the safety of myself and everyone else than a few people seeing my wobbly bits.

Lydia, London,

Back to civilised air travel with no queues at security and no fear of terrorism striking you or your children when simply trying to go on holiday. A very small price to pay for someone being able to see what everyone else has got.
Andrew Maynard
Sheffield UK

ANDREW MAYNARD, SHEFFIELD,

What's new? I've been able to see through my husband for years!

Pauline, Cardiff, Wales

I seem to remember a saying to the effect that if terrorism significantly changes the way we live, then the terrorists have won.

What else is this horrendous suspension of our civil liberties than a loss to our society?

Ted, Bristol, UK

Good idea. The cameras could be used by the obesity-police to check that you're not just wearing a thick coat.

Alex Ritchie, Salisbury, UK

Better yet, the female camera operator may be leering at you!

Mike, Everett, USA/WA

Sure it can be intrusive ... but how many times have we watched as the insanity of few destroy the lives of many? The same questions begs ... why should we let allow terrorists and paranoia ruin our lives?

Cuan P, Johannesburg, South Africa

How awful. Can you imagine walking past one of these machines in an airport with your teenage daughter and beautiful wife, knowing that a machine operator and his colleagues have been leering over the two people you love most in the world? Well this will be what I experience when we go on holiday or get the train. This is an outrage.

Dexter, London,

Unfortunately the technology is not going to be bullet proof as Terahertz Radiation is heavily absorbed by water molecules. therefore all it takes is a thin layer of liquid to hide an object.

A brilliant and exciting technology and as it's generation techniques improves it can only get better.

To get a grip on the technology a good start is looking at the Auston Switch.

Nick Goldie, Leeds, UK

There appears to be a money-making opportunity here . . . for the manufacture and sale of clothing that is opaque to T-rays. Perhaps ferrite doping of the fabric, or even a fine mesh of metallic threads, would re-establish one's privacy . . . and modesty.

Hank, Austin, Texas, USA

Here in the US, we have that pesky 4th Amendment that forbids "unreasonable search and seizure". I wonder how this sort of thing plays out - given that you're "searching" EVERYONE for contraband?

Yeah, I know - "if it makes us safer". But it was Benjamin Franklin who wrote:

"Those who surrender essential liberty to purchase a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security"

Mike, Georgia, USA

kim... "outrageous violation of privacy and civil liberties"? eh? you want your rights to be able to carried a concealed weapon? what about my right to be protected from idiots? (yeah, I know, I could switch my pc off).

jem, london, uk

Kind of funny that a lot of people immediately cramp-up and start yelling something about privacy. What does this all have to do with privacy? We all walk the streets; should we stop doing that for the sake of privacy and stay inside for some solitary confinement? We all live in the public space, stop being afraid if you have nothing to hide. Now if somebody installs this in my private space; I will start yelling. You may disagree with me on what is public and what is private space here; as far as I am concerned the public space should be crowded with stuff like this. Like guns in public/private space we should have rules on how to use them. Public space is shared by us all and it should be possible to make people accountable when they ignore the rules we all make together. If you can not accept this; go into politics and try to convince us that there is something better than democracy.

Wido Riezebos, Utrecht, Netherlands

To the pople complaing about being seen naked, I'm sure its not a clear image, the cameras are designed to pick up objects that aren't your skins or clothes. And anyway what would you prefer, someone scanning your body to see if you have a weapon or somone not being caught with a weapon then getting onto a plane, a train or walking into a shop and killing people?

This is not just for use against terrorists, it could be used to stop stabbings on nights out, guns on the streets and help the police do thier job properly, if they've got somthing that can see a danger from 80ft away it means we can be better protected by them. So shouldn't we be supporting such a camera that could help save lives?

Jonathan Thompson, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

If this becomes widespread, I can see a market for underclothes with obscene messages created out of denser material that can only be read by those using these cameras.
You know what, I bet you'd be prosecuted for it too.

Paul M, Puerto del Rosario, Spain

Why should we let the paranoia of the few dictate the lives of the many?

javed, london, uk

This outrageous violation of privacy and civil liberties will continue as long as people put up with it. Why do we allow terrorists and paranoia to rule our lives?

Kim Righetti, Upland, Calif. USA

I wouldn't mind if people wanted to see my naked body, even if they put it on the web. i'm not in the greatest shape, but i don't care cuz i think nudity is beautiful. i like being naked...

Diohny, Danbury,

Mike Smithson - that was my immediate reaction! Let hope they appear on eBay soon!

I don't think i'll ever feel comfortable walking down Canary Wharf anymore with my reworn student underwear.

Chris, London,

Fine. No problems with this at all because if the airport security can see I have no weapons on me then they won't need any of my biometric data will they.

alison, Glasgow, UK

People will be wearing clothes made from aluminum foil to block it. Tinfoil bikinis, anyone?

Andrew P, Alexandria, VA

Very interesting, these cameras I assume are much more sensitive than the passive millimeter-wave surveillance cameras already available. I know there are surveillance cameras that have been available for a few years now here in the US that can see through clothing to detect concealed weapons and other items.

Michael, Charleston, SC USA

If you ask me this sounds very perverted.This is getting way out of hand.How far are we willing to be violated,come on people ,will you be outraged when these photos start showing up on the web,from some perverted sick person behind the computer screen,complete strangers looking at your naked body.This is sick. "Stop the world I want off ".

Christine Fitch, Perrysburg, USA

Sounds like a great idea to me. I don't have anything to hide, and sure would like to be able to catch those who do.

There is no constitutional protection of privacy in a public area. If they were using these things on private property or in my home, I would join the rioters, but in an airport or subway station - NO PROBLEM.

John, Indianapolis, USA / Indiana

I agree with Dave, Todd, I have been on a campaign against this kind of stuff for years and no one cares.

Dan, St. Louis, Mo., USA

I work in Canary Wharf and had no idea! If they're going to see me naked I'm going to have to go on a diet!

Louise, London,

Hey Todd,who are you kidding.We wouldn't revolt.We'd gripe and moan about it,maybe a few would riot,but we are too apathetic to really do something.Besides,we do have stuff like that here,and we haven't done anything about it.Airports,remember?

David, Newport News, USA

A science article that talks in 'feet'? Ye gods!

Jim Ross, Cirencester,

wow gee.. theres enough voyuers watching the streets and even worse the sickos in the government get to see people naked. Just a couple steps away from totalitarianism. At least in the USA there would be a rebellion if this happened.

Todd, Chicago, USA

Will anyone dare risk being 'racist' by pointing this at someone in a burkha to check for concealed nail bombs ? No, thought not:(

Colin Soames, London,

All in the name of terrorism.....If it can see through clothes, then anatomical details, although blurry, will definately wind up on you tube.....you mark my words.....;)

pazz, London, UK

Well I bet its not as good as the xray specs I bought out of the superman comics in the sixties.

kenny livitt, hove, uk

Last Halloween, I was assaulted by some muppets in a passing car who threw eggs at me TWICE. When the first one bounced off my chest, they drove round the block to catch me a second time. It missed, but that car and a pursuing car of more Welsh muppets were the only cars on the street and when the first slowed the following one down, it was easy to get a licence number. Since the police station was only the other end of the street, I immediately reported it, thinking that they'd realise that reporting a criminal assault just outside immediately after it happened with supporting evidence would appeal to the laziest of cops.

Nothing doing! Days later, I noticed there was a CCTV camera pointing at the very spot where I was assaulted. And, still, I never heard anything more about it.

So, the question I ask is - if these cameras are being used, who is using them? We're told 234 different agencies can access those camera but they are certainly not contributing to my safety

Ed, Cardiff,

I want one!!!

Mike Smithson, Bristol , UK