Reg: Two UK airports scrap IRIS eye-scanners

Guest · **Posted:** Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:14:20 +0000

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The UK Border Agency's multi-million-pound hi-tech eye-scanner programme is in danger of being scrapped, with two airports ditching the service and registration now closed.

A UKBA spokeswoman told The Register that the system was "under review", but Manchester and Birmingham airports have already stopped using their scanners.

"Obviously there's lots of new technology that's coming through at the moment – biometric passports, fingerprints – so UKBA are reviewing all the technology that's in place and iris scanning is one of them," she said.

"Iris was good technology at the time, but faster and more reliable options have become available and have been rolled out across the border so that's where we are with things."

Guest · **Posted:** Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:58 +0000

I do like the way they take about "the border" as though it's a land border; "rolled out across the border". It's typical management guff, which we've come to expect every time these dimwhits open their mouths. They'll be calling us all "customers" next. Oh wait! They already do.

Guest · **Posted:** Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:09:34 +0000

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Iris was good technology at the time, but faster and more reliable options have become available

do they mean options like the manual checks that they replaced by any chance ?

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