Fingerprint and iris checks for air passengers...
By Andy McCue on 6 December 2006 15:50
Those with miSense cards can use a dedicated self-service check-in kiosk for Emirates or Cathay Pacific in Terminal 3 at Heathrow. A fingerprint scanner on the kiosk verifies the person against the details on the card and then issues a boarding pass.
For those without a card the miSense kiosk scans and records the passenger's passport and right index fingerprint and then issues a boarding pass.
Photo credit: Andy McCue
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1. Richard
Fingerprint readers & hand scanners: Polonium 210 on the hands of previous passengers?
More mundanely, what about ordinary infectious diseases: Everything from colds & stomach bugs to "bird 'flu" & SARS?
2. Kevin Nickolls
Great, progress at last. But how do we ensure you can't get through the vetting process with false ID anyway? And where will we able to pre-qualify other than at the airport?