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UK airports will start a trial of using face scans to identify people this summer. Instead of passport officers checking the passport, people’s faces will be scanned and data compared to the data chip in biometric passports.

Border security feel that facial recognition technology will be better at preventing ID fraud, but admit that people’s reactions to being stopped by a machine may be a problem.

It is not clear how many airports will take part in the trial, but if it proves successful the technology will be incorporated in all UK airports.