Fingerprinting As The New Passport
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Scandinavian airline SAS has introduced finger-print check-in on a domestic flight from Stockholm to Gotenburg in Sweden. Its purpose at the moment is to make sure that the person who checks-in luggage is the same as the person boarding the flight, a sure advantage for airport /on-flight security.
While they point out that this is not new on a domestic level, they note that eventually they would like to make this an international system of identification. I am not sure how widespread it would be, but it brings up a couple of different issues.
