Singapore Airport to do away with passports for facial recognition technology

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Travellers departing from Singapore Airport will now be able to travel without passports as the airport introduces an automated immigration system.

This morning, ministers in Singapore announced that one of the world's busiest airports, Changi Airport, will swap passports for biometric data – taken from fingerprint scans and facial recognition technology.this afternoon, travel correspondent Eoghan Corry said Government agencies are not enthusiastic about the change.

"Thankfully, we've got one of the most powerful passports in the world – there's only a couple of countries we still need paper visas for," he said.Eoghan said the level of technology that is available will not be easily fooled.In airports in Australia, Eoghan said passport control is now entirely automated."Occasionally randomly people are picked for a second check – they do that to make sure the system is working.

"But you walk through the gates instead of the big long queue we used to have at the end of a 21-hour flight."

 

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