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Delta launching facial recognition tech trial at Atlanta airport
For the first time, your next flight could be unlocked by facial recognition technology, starting at bag check, going through security and all the way to the gate. The partnership between Delta and the Transportation Security Administration aims to save passengers time as people are flooding back to airports. (www.knoe.com) More...
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Delta's international flights have used this for boarding at the gate for years our of JFK. While it was only at the gate, at boarding time, one was given an option of being scanned or scanning your ticket. I opted to scan my ticket and it wasn't any slower than a face scan and possibly faster. Like Cleffer said, it's just another piece of your privacy being stripped away.
If the tech is available (and clearly it is) they already have all the pieces in place. Whether you choose to use it or not is immaterial - your privacy is already gone. I went through Customs upon arriving back in the US last week, and they used facial scanning at passport control. Didn't even have to get my passport out. I could have opted for individual processing but it wouldn't have changed the fact my information was already there, ready to be used.
IMO there's a difference between governmental use of this tech and corporate use of the same tech, but I don't think much of anyone else cares.
IMO there's a difference between governmental use of this tech and corporate use of the same tech, but I don't think much of anyone else cares.
Yeah, well, the facial recognition at passport control re-entering the US has never worked fir me and I always have to get in the other line. Once I get to an agent, he always looks at me, looks at my passport, scans it and lets me through.
I don’t see the point doing it at the gate. It takes about the same time to scan a boarding pass bar code and could take longer when it doesn’t work and one needs to fall back to the electronic boarding pass.
I don’t see the point doing it at the gate. It takes about the same time to scan a boarding pass bar code and could take longer when it doesn’t work and one needs to fall back to the electronic boarding pass.
No disagreements there Georgene. Mine info is two. I travel enough that Global entry was worth the price of giving some of that privacy up.
I was talking with someone else about this a couple of years ago, and the airline terminals have had things in place for a while now. Cameras and such, that allow them to track someone from the moment they arrive at the curb. There is enough information about the terminal (distance to gates, density of people, lines, etc.) that they know how long it is going to take someone from when they step out of the vehicle to arrive at the gate.
We will never see the days of pre-TSA ease and speed to a gate but speeding things up would be nice.
I was talking with someone else about this a couple of years ago, and the airline terminals have had things in place for a while now. Cameras and such, that allow them to track someone from the moment they arrive at the curb. There is enough information about the terminal (distance to gates, density of people, lines, etc.) that they know how long it is going to take someone from when they step out of the vehicle to arrive at the gate.
We will never see the days of pre-TSA ease and speed to a gate but speeding things up would be nice.
More big data sales coming soon.
this does not seem to be that much faster than the"old way"of passing through the tsa checkpoint..the article states the facial recognition is compared to a passport photo or visa on file..what if you do not have that? there are many who travel that have never applied for either a passport or visa as they only travel occasionally and dont go on international trips..in any case,how does this avoid having a bag checked through an xray machine, or walking through one yourself? call me "old fashioned" but if this is "speeding things up" because of a lack of tsa employees,does that make the process any safer for travellers???
