Under new UN-backed plans to streamline air travel, physical passports could become a thing of the past. The proposal from the The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) could lead to the most-dramatic shift in international air travel policy in decades, moving from a paper-based system to just facial recognition. The World’s transportation correspondent Jeremy Siegel has the story.
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