Two airlines, Qatar Airways and Air Arabia, will have limited access to the Stolen and Lost Travel Document database.

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The EU is pushing to bring in a Europe-wide passenger database for air-travel which in future could help track individuals down.

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But Uptake, backed by Shasta Ventures and Trinity Ventures, has a database of 1.8 million travel destinations, hotels, and attractions that it has been building for the past three years.

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