It is not whether you have something to hide. It is about who has access to that information, friend or foe. Not that your government is your friend.

@liumingke: Agreed.

Looking at the Express newspaper article, it is a trial in one airport only at the moment. Which is why probably no one here has experienced it yet.

In theory great, like the use of biometric passport, fast automated entry control for EU passport holders in UK. Great, fast, easy...until the machines broke down and it seemed that they were never repaired.

I get the point, but the logic there leads to: Let the state keep track of everybody all the time as much as possible. Where does it stop?

it doesn't

face recognition technology going into the system as we speak

wearing a burqa will be the fix. :-)

face recognition technology definitely the next step but in the meantime the USA testing out lie detector robots www.express.co.uk/[...]

think it will all be good in the end, with a smoother process at the airport in the future ;o) unless your a liar lol

you only gotta look nervous for a cavity search. @rejected, bloke in a burka lol, they will stop ya

@redjon: You mean they're going to persecute liars now? Damn, pack up, we're all going to jail. Maybe this is why there are separate counters for people with diplomatic passports.