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Your Face or Fingerprint Could Soon Replace Your Plane Ticket (washingtonpost.com)
Headed on a trip? You may soon be able to ditch your boarding pass in favor of your fingers or face. From a report: Delta announced, on Wednesday, a new biometric identification pilot program that will eventually let you use your fingerprints instead of a plane ticket (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source). That followed a JetBlue announcement hours earlier that it is testing a program in Boston that will match pictures of customers' faces with the passport database maintained by U.S. Custom and Border Protections. Delta's program, which kicked off at Washington's Reagan National Airport, is in partnership with Clear, a company that already lets customers skip to the front of security lines without identification.
Is this where the TSA slams you to the ground and drags you on the flight?.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Valujet used to let you just walk up and give your name, no paperwork required. Those were the days.
They turned me away when I would walk up to them and tell them my name was Anonymous Coward. ... still works everytime nowadays to get a free prostate exam.
When I presented my finger, I was attacked by the TSA. Maybe I used the wrong one.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.