Post by Owen on Jan 9, 2024 11:17:36 GMT
1 ~~~ Your face could be your new passport: a new trial means travellers won't need to show passports when entering the UK
Facial recognition technology will be used in a new trial, allowing travellers to enter the UK without their passports
After a long journey, slowly snaking around the terminal in never-ending queues and fumbling in your bag for your passport at border control is never a good way to end a trip.
When the UK's eGates first became available to UK travellers, they were praised for offering a faster alternative to the human-run desks, but since then, they have faced criticism for frequent technology breakdowns, from machines refusing to accept passports or gates imprisoning unassuming jet-setters in between its doors.
So the promise of a streamlined, technologically advanced border control system might just be the solution travellers have been hoping for.
www.cntraveller.com/article/new-trial-means-travellers-wont-need-to-show-passports-when-entering-uk#
4 January 2024
Facial recognition technology will be used in a new trial, allowing travellers to enter the UK without their passports
After a long journey, slowly snaking around the terminal in never-ending queues and fumbling in your bag for your passport at border control is never a good way to end a trip.
When the UK's eGates first became available to UK travellers, they were praised for offering a faster alternative to the human-run desks, but since then, they have faced criticism for frequent technology breakdowns, from machines refusing to accept passports or gates imprisoning unassuming jet-setters in between its doors.
So the promise of a streamlined, technologically advanced border control system might just be the solution travellers have been hoping for.
www.cntraveller.com/article/new-trial-means-travellers-wont-need-to-show-passports-when-entering-uk#
4 January 2024