This is one case where the mods should definitely fix the post title - this is not airport scanners scrapped everywhere in the UK, just Manchester, and they're going to be replaced with a different type anyway.

They deployed scanners in Glasgow and Edinburgh airports just a few weeks ago, and as objclxt points out: you can't opt-out of them. In theory you should only be scanned if you set off the metal detector or are 'randomly' selected, but I've heard at least one report of everyone going through Glasgow airport being scanned.

I assume these are the 'privacy friendly' scanners, which 'don't emit radiation' according to the airports. I think they mean they're millimetre wave instead of backscatter X-Ray, but they're still intrusive. They show up anything they find on a 'cartoon' image.

The BBC report on the scanners being fitted in Glasgow and Edinburgh is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19...