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Your Face or Fingerprint Could Soon Replace Your Plane Ticket (washingtonpost.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

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.

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  1. Faceprint... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this where the TSA slams you to the ground and drags you on the flight?.

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  2. How about more seating space instead? by blahbooboo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tickets and electronic tickets work fine. This isn't an issue. How about give us more space on the planes instead of spending money on this stuff?

  3. How convenient! by Anubis+IV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now they can just use the fingerprints they have on file to unlock your phone during their all-too-common border searches, rather than having to rely on your cooperation.

  4. I tried that by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I presented my finger, I was attacked by the TSA. Maybe I used the wrong one.

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