Interpol wants facial recognition database to catch suspects

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"Interpol is planning to expand its role into the mass screening of passengers moving around the world by creating a 
face recognition database to catch wanted suspects.

Every year more than 800 million international travellers fail to undergo "the most basic scrutiny" to check whether 
their identity documents have been stolen,
the global policing cooperation body has warned.

Senior figures want a system that lets immigration officials capture digital images of passengers and immediately 
cross-check them against a database of pictures of terror suspects,
international criminals and fugitives.

The UK's first automated face recognition gates - matching passengers to their digital image in the latest generation 
of passports - began operating at Manchester airport in August.

Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit, will this week unveil proposals in London for the creation of 
biometric identification systems that could be linked to such immigration checks."
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More at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/20/interpol-facial-recognition/print

Juha-Matti
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