Tulipmania and the Home Office
10 August 2009 Logic and the Home Office
  5 August 2009 Open letter to the Home Secretary
  4 September 2009 Response
11 August 2009 Confusion and the Home Office
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 4 February 2009 Open letter to Sir David Normington 1
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 6 February 2009 Newspaper coverage
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 16 April 2009 Open letter to Sir David Normington 2
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 26 June 2009

Response to 16 April letter from UK Border Agency:

UKBA commenced testing our Automated Clearance System (ACS) at Manchester and Stansted in August and December last year, to assess the accuracy and reliability of the technology.
  4 August 2009 Open letter to the UK Border Agency 1
11 August 2009 Danger and the Home Office
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 April 2009 A 15-year eOdyssey
  8 August 2009 Open letter to the UK Border Agency 2
  19 August 2009 Response
  18 September 2009 Response, followed by fruitless exchange of emails
  30 October 2009 Open letter to the UK Border Agency 3
  3 February 2010

Response:

Evaluation of Manchester gave us enough confidence to proceed to expand the trial.
  23 February 2010 Meeting
  4 March 2010 Informal minutes of 23 February 2010 meeting written by the Home Office
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 1 December 2010

An inspection of border control at Manchester Airport 5 – 7 May 2010:

5.29 We could find no overall plan to evaluate the success or otherwise of the facial recognition gates at Manchester Airport and would urge the Agency to do so [as] soon as possible
12 August 2009 Fantasy and the Home Office
  8 August 2009 Open letter to the Identity & Passport Service
  25 August 2009 Response
  30 October 2009 Open letter to the Identity & Passport Service 2
  16 November 2009 Response
  20 November 2009 Email to the Identity & Passport Service 1
  20 January 2010 Email to the Identity & Passport Service 2