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Police forces have been secretly conducting hundreds of facial recognition searches using the UK’s database of 46 million British passport holders, it can be revealed.

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>> i have been speaking with law enforcement officials and they are telling me, you may be surprised to learn that it is something that does happen, specially among drug weapons, human traffickers. they will often try to use these stolen passports to board planes. here in the u.s., authorities routinely check passports for inbound and outbound passengers on international flights and a number of databases, including interpols lost and stolen passport database. the numbers are really alarming here...