Innovative Technology has been approved as a participant in a UK government programme piloting age verification technology for the retail sale of alcohol. The Home Office invited organisations to propose digital methods of checking customers’ ages while purchasing alcohol. Piloted in several convenience stores in the Northwest of England, the regulatory ‘Sandbox’ trial which will run between January and May 2022, will still require humans to check customers’ ages, but the technology will be used to help retailers abide by the law currently in place to prevent alcohol being mis-sold to anyone underage. The Oldham-based company’s facial recognition technology has also been used in a pilot for staff access at the St Alban’s Catholic Primary School in Warrington, England. The roll-out of such technology is increasing in the UK. Last December, Welsh police started using the futuristic technology that will identify wanted individuals in real-time. The officers were the first in …