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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

REVEALED: Facial recognition could replace passports at uk airport e gates | Vintage Vibes

Border Force check the passports of passengers arriving at Gatwick airport
Border Force checks at Gatwick airport. Phil Douglas has said he would ‘like to see a world of completely frictionless borders’. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

It has happened to the best of us. The last-minute racking of brains on arrival in the UK to try to remember where the passports were packed, followed by the panicked fumbling all the way to the bottom of every compartment of every bag.

That may all be in the past though, should plans reportedly proposed by the government’s borders agency go ahead, with the need to present the document on arrival in the UK being replaced by facial recognition technology.

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