I'm thinking nope, not for me. If other use it then I still avoid longer queuing but I'd rather not submit my bio identifiers to a private companies app for this.
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Aren't they already with them is you have a passport since we've had e-passports for years in the UK?
This seems to involve an app by someone else where you have up upload your details including passport and photos.
No this is a biometric reader. Your passport holds your details which can theoretically be used by anyone. The machine will verify the individual by Facial recognition and finger prints. A full run down is on the government website.
I love how they are flaunting this as a method to reduce queues. The EU has postponed this for over a year now because of the impact to flow rate. All truck drivers will have to disembark to verify who they are. Buses crossing by ferry will now have everyone pass through a biometric check machine. This will be yet more delay to travelling to the EU. Something those in the EU do not have to deal with.
Eurostar said it would like to make the new technology - a first for UK rail travel - available to more customers in future, if it proves successful.
A first for UK rail travel? Where else would it even be applicable?
Wow, guess I’m never using St Pancras again.
I thought e-passport gates already did this? Not that they ever work for me, in the last year I've always ended up having to go through the (very scantly staffed) staffed passport gates because the e-passport gate doesn't seem to be able to recognise me.