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The us biometric system, officially launched on Monday, is now in use at 115 airports as well as 14 seaports, with the US hoping to roll out the scheme in 50 of the busiest land entry ports by the end of 2004 and in all land ports by 31 December...
The ICAO standards do not govern the use to which the facial recognition is put but even the most reliable uses of this technology - one-to-one verification using recent photographs - have been shown in US government tests to be highly unreliable...
On the security side, the system is equipped with sensors that create a record of a container's movements, such as when a door is opened. The heart of the system is a cigar-box-sized computer that slips into the door of a container.
The voluntary scheme is aimed at permanent residents, work permit holders, long-term students and frequent business travellers. He added: "The remaining small air and sea ports will be covered in the last stage of the programme from 2010-14.
The barring of US residents by TorrentSpy comes as a US district judge is expected to rule any day on whether TorrentSpy must turn over its user information to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
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