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Dubai Airport Will Use Biometric Scanning By 2020 To Replace Entry With Passport (gulfnews.com)
dryriver quotes a report from Gulf News: For visitors or residents coming in to Dubai, a new face-recognition software in the offing at the Dubai International Airport will enable them to walk straight to the baggage claim area after deplaning without having to stop at passport control. British start-up ObjectTech announced that they will work with the Dubai government to install biometric tunnels that scan people's faces as they walk to baggage reclaim. The "biometric border" walkway takes a 3D scan of people's faces as they enter the airport and checks it against a digital passport using face-recognition software. If this project is completed, passengers arriving at Dubai airport will be able to step off their flight and walk straight to baggage reclaim via biometric verification tunnels -- allowing them to be registered into the country using a pre-approved and entirely digitized passport.
How many identification errors allowed per 1000? (officially, I mean)
How does this work where people are forced to live in cloth bags because of their stone age superstitions?
The day they do that for exit instead of entry the world will be a safer place.
Indeed! This is good news for all the slave construction workers who can't leave Dubai because their contractors have taken their passports. Now they can just walk out.
Sounds like a sheik in the Dubai royal family has been fooled into paying billions for technology that doesn't exist.
Automated photomatching isn't that good, even under ideal circumstances. This startup claims to be able to recognize people while they are walking.
Dubai had over 80 million air travelers in 2016, so unless the error rate is incredibly small, this is going to be a big waste of money (like so many other things in Dubai).
This was the first thought that occurred to me. Now, those contractors won't be able to ask for their passports, particularly if they leave it back home. It's unbelievable how any country can allow people to confiscate the passports of their employees, making them indentured servants, if not downright slaves.
Never been a fan of that country, despite all the glitz that they manage to parade. A French-Armenian worker, who had worked 30 years in Saudi Arabia, was once asked what he thought of that country. His response: "Money can buy anything. Except civilization."
That's true for all the Muslim OPEC states, not just KSA.