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Originally Posted by RedFox  With the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5, all departing domestic passengers are to be fingerprinted at the check-in, and again at the boarding gate, to prevent them swapping boarding cards with international passengers. According the this report, industry insiders believe fingerprinting could become universal at all UK airports within a few years.
Although some overseas airports use fingerprinting as part of immigration checks, this will be a world first for departures. International passengers at Heathrow will not be fingerprinted - at least for now.
So - is this a sensible security measure, a welcome technological advance, an attempt to make fingerprinting seem normal in preparation for ID cards, or more hassle when the fingerprint scanner refuses to recognise you? |
It's another victory for terrorists. Every time the 'authorities' institute new rules that cause a nuisance, it makes us more aware of the what the terrorists do and what they want to achieve.
I'd be interested to know how many passenger-incidents the instigators of this scheme believe it will prevent. If it is, like, thousands, then fair enough. If it's a few dozen, should hundreds of thousands of people be inconvenienced in this way?