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By JAMES LYONS AIRPORT scanners that recognise passengers' faces are being introduced to boost security and cut queues. The system compares people's faces with information digitally stored on biometric passports. The machines are being used at Manchester and will eventually go nationwide. Ministers believe they will help identify criminals and terrorists trying to sneak in. Around 12.5 million Britons and more than 40 million across Europe have the biometric passports required....

AIRPORT security scanners that recognise faces are set to cut queues. The five machines at Manchester airport compare faces to information stored on biometric passports. They are part of a trial involving the UK and other European countries. Similar technology is already used in Portuguese airports and in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. (c) 2008 Daily Record; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

FRANKFURT -- German chip maker Infineon said on Monday it had won a contract from the U.S. government to supply security chips for an electronic passport system.Infineon said the United States was planning to start issuing the passports to citizens by the end of the year, with about 15 million electronic passports in the first year."Infineon will supply chips for several million passports, but not for all 15 million," an Infineon spokeswoman told Reuters.The company declined to give...

By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Italian and French citizens risk losing the right to visa-free U.S. travel on Wednesday when new American passport rules take effect, but U.S. security officials expect the logistical and economic impact to be limited. Austria, which had also been expected to miss the October 26 deadline to include a digital photograph in all new passports, appears to have found an eleventh-hour solution to salvage its visa-free travel...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration opposed security measures for new microchip-equipped passports that privacy advocates contended were needed to prevent identity theft, government snooping or a terror attack, according to State Department documents released Friday. The passports, scheduled to be issued by the end of 2005, could be read electronically from as far away as 30 feet, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the documents under a Freedom of Information...

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration opposed security measures for new microchip-equipped passports that privacy advocates contended were needed to prevent identity theft, government snooping or a terror attack, according to State Department documents released Friday. The passports, scheduled to be issued by the end of 2005, could be read electronically from as far away as 30 feet, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the documents under a Freedom of Information...