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PostPosted: 17:06 - 05 Apr 2009    Post subject: One for you Mister James Reply with quote
https://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article6036353.ece

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AIRPORT face scanners designed to stop terrorists getting into the UK have been “rigged” to cut passenger queues and are creating an “unacceptable” security risk, a confidential Whitehall e-mail has claimed.

UK border officials at Manchester airport allege the machines have been recalibrated so that passengers shown as having just a 30% likeness to their passport photographs are being let into the country.


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Using facial recognition software employed at Sydney airport in Australia, he found that even people of strikingly different appearance, such as Kevin Spacey and Winona Ryder, the Hollywood stars, showed a match of well above 30% with Osama Bin Laden. Gordon Brown was assessed as bearing even more similarity to Mel Gibson, the actor.

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PostPosted: 17:58 - 05 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
It doesn't surprise me - the Border Force has long bemoaned the fact that security and border integrity took second place to keeping the EU queue down.
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