Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition technology that will scan passengers and use automatic gates in an attempt to tighten border security and speed up immigration checks.
By 2015, biometric technology will make getting on a plane almost as easy as getting on the bus or train today, according to a leading border security expert.
A government project to use passenger and intelligence databases to track and screen travellers entering and leaving the UK is set to begin trials by the end of the year.
Countries including the UK and the US are putting biometrics at the forefront of plans to improve national border security but there are still significant issues to be solved before the technology is up to the job.
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