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London 2012 Olympics: passengers braced for heavy delays at Heathrow as athletes get VIP passport lanes

Posted at Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 by andrew

According to the Daily Telegraph:
Passengers arriving at Heathrow this summer could face lengthy delays at passport control as immigration staff are being redeployed from their normal roles to collect biometric data off Olympic athletes arriving in dedicated passport lanes.
Visiting athletes have been encouraged to supply biometric data – such as fingerprints and photographs – [...]

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Iris-scanning registration booths scaled back

Posted at Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 by andrew

Rob Hastings writes in the Independent:
At the very time long passport control queues are being blamed as the root cause of the border control scandal, most registration booths for the technology designed to eliminate such waits have been closed with no sign they are to re-open.
Iris recognition scanners have been introduced at several British airports [...]

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Theresa May ‘Suppressed’ Home Office DNA Database Report, Say Labour

Posted at Sunday, October 9th, 2011 by andrew

The Huffington Post reports:
Theresa May suppressed a Home Office report that found changes to the DNA database would make it harder to catch murderers and rapists, according to Labour.
The House of Commons is expected to pass the Protection of Freedom Bill on Monday. Under government’s plans only adults convicted or cautioned will have their [...]

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Call to scrap DNA retention measure

Posted at Friday, October 7th, 2011 by andrew

The Press Association reports:
A broad catch-all discretion enabling police to keep the DNA of innocent people indefinitely for reasons of national security should be scrapped, MPs and peers have said.
Ministers have failed to provide a justification of why this power is necessary and proportionate, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) said.
Its report on the [...]

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Innocent people’s DNA profiles won’t be deleted after all, minister admits

Posted at Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 by andrew

Christopher Hope, and Robert Winnett write in The Daily Telegraph:
The DNA of more than one million innocent people will not be wiped from police records, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Instead the police will retain DNA profiles in anonymised form, leaving open the possibility of connecting them up with people’s names, ministers have admitted.
The admission appears [...]

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