Thousands of Irish travellers will be scanned by live facial recognition technology this week as part of UK immigration enforcement efforts at Holyhead port.
Live facial recognition allows authorities to scan faces and compare them against databases in real time to identify offenders or other people of interest.
The use of the controversial technology at the Welsh port comes as police forces in England and Wales prepare a major expansion of the technology.
The trial at Holyhead this week follows a previous pilot by UK authorities in November last year. Transparency data published by the UK home office showed that during six days of trials, more than 7,500 faces were scanned, resulting…