I try hard to ensure the least problem in security but the variability and obvious absurdities vex me.
Why did I trip an alarm passing through an inspection portal at Heathrow but nowhere else?
Nothing on my person that is prescribed or unusual. Apart from regular clothing (underwear, trousers, shoes and shirt) and aviator style thin metal eyeglasses, my pocket contents were tissues, two passports and a wallet containing paper money and credit cards and personal ID.
Could it have been the glasses, or the RFID chips in the passports and credit cards?
I'm not trusting enough to separate myself from them by placing them in my carry-on (too many reported examples of theft by the examiners worldwide). Consequently, knowing that I comply with all regulations, being put through the whole body scanner I find to be an unwarranted and wholly unnecessary invasion of my privacy. Especially as the result - surprise, surprise - was nothing that required examination or aroused any interest at all.
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