On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:42:40 +0000, MM wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:47:23 +0000, Peter Parry
>wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:17:54 +0000, Les Invalides
>>wrote:
>>
>>>shaun posted
>>
>>>>You can check in but are not allowed through security until your flight
>>>>is called at which point you are escorted through security to airside
>>>>and directly on to the aircraft.
>>>
>>>How do you know this? Will passengers be told they have this option
>>>instead of being fingerprinted?
>>
>>In T5 I understand such an option will not exist, you will simply be
>>refused entry.
>
>The office of the Information Commissioner has indicated that it would
>be prepared to prosecute if it decided that BAA was in the wrong, but
>BAA continued to flout its directive. The Liberal Democrats today have
>also said that this fingerprinting ruse (they didn't use the word
>"ruse") is disproportionate to the need to check passengers when just
>a photograph would suffice to achieve that.
>
>The argument from the BAA side went something like this: That BAA has
>been working closely with the Border and Immigration Agency on this.
>Well, surprise, surprise! No wonder they jointly came up with
>fingerprinting. Maybe even the BAIA suggested one huge, single hall in
>T5's design so that fingerprinting, then only a figment, could be made
>reality.
>
>MM
I wonder if there will be a concerted effort to foil the system by
people who object.
I guess that something as simple as putting Vaseline on your finger
before arriving at the check-point would not help the throughput of
traffic; I guess that more effective means will be found.
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