High-Tech Policing To Britain’s Borders

The Eborders system will link the databases of government departments to those of transport providers to allow the speedy identification of passengers the government would want to exclude. It is part of the wider strategy that includes biometric passports and visas and the controversial identity-card scheme. Meanwhile, two defence contractors, BAE Systems and Thales, are understood to have made the Home Office’s long list for a “roster” of companies that will provide the ID-card system.