All air passengers to give their fingerprints

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Millions of passengers flying from British airports will be fingerprinted from next year under the latest controversial Government anti-terror plans.

The amendments to national aviation security rules will require fingerprints to be scanned when passengers pass through security into the airside terminal. Passengers passing through security place a hand on an electronic scanner which records four fingerprints. They then face a camera and are photographed.

Passengers will be fingerprint-scanned again at their flight departure gate.

It is likely that the scheme will later be expanded to cover passengers at major seaports and the Channel Tunnel rail links.

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