Iris, Fingerprint Scans for Passengers at Heathrow

Posted by Shabana on February 7, 2008
Filed under: Gear, London, News

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USA Today is reporting that passengers transferring to Heathrow domestic terminal from international flights, and domestic passengers who wish to visit the international lounge before departure will be required to undergo iris scans and be fingerprinted, under new security measures.

The scanning will be done at Terminal 1 and will be used to identify passengers, in addition to their usual photo ID and boarding pass checks. All received data will be destroyed within 24 hours. Domestic flight passengers who don’t wish to visit the international lounge are exempt from the biometric scan.

When the new Terminal 5 opens in March, a similar security system might also be put in place there.

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Comments

T. Page
February 7th, 2008 - 9:44 pm

Why? Why is this necessary?

Welcome to 1984.


Olivia Giovetti
February 8th, 2008 - 10:28 am

Yay! Another excuse for Heathrow to have ridiculously long lines and innumerable delays!