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Sydney Airport Launches Face Scan Check-In Trials (techcrunch.com)
The plan to replace passport check-ins with more face scans is being trialed by Quantas on passengers for select flights into the Sydney Airport starting this week. The move is an attempt to replace the "inconvenience" of relying on more traditional paper passports. TechCrunch reports: It's still very early stages in a process that isn't exactly being rolled out overnight. After all, implementing such technology for Sydney's 43 million annual passengers is pretty large undertaking, even without myriad security and privacy concerns to contend with. To start with, the technology will be utilized for select international flights, to help automate check-in, boarding, lounge access and bag drop. Moving forward, the airport also hopes to implement it for mobile check-in and customs processing. "We've worked with Qantas from the outset and are delighted to be partnering with them as we trial this technology," Sydney Airport CEO Geoff Culbert said in a statement provided to the press. "In the future, there will be no more juggling passports and bags at check-in and digging through pockets or smartphones to show your boarding pass," he added. "Your face will be your passport and your boarding pass at every step of the process."
So they can determine when Kim Dotcom arrives asking for political asylum.
Can someone fix the spelling for Qantas?
And before anyone says "u" always comes after "q", it's because it was actually an acronym: Queensland And Northern Territory Ariel Services
Make SELinux enforcing again!
"In the future, there will be no more juggling passports and bags at check-in and digging through pockets or smartphones to show your boarding pass"
This seems like the sort of inconvenience they show you in poorly acted infomercials...
Tired of tipping the bowl of chips over on the couch every time you reach for the remote?
Tired of dropping the bottle on the floor every time you try to pour yourself a drink?
IS THIS YOU?
We have the solution!
Your face will be your passport and your boarding pass at every step of the process.
Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
Re "Next will be the two-factor mode." AC
Something like and advanced 100 point check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... will be needed to create a passport.
Simple work for another nations security services using a real passport to do missions internationally.
Easy for a criminal and illegal migrant to "create" a life history.
The problem with real time CCTV and a face is the other database lookups in real time.
Its not going to be easy to "create" a new fake person in 2018 to get a new clean passport with no 20 to 60 years of gov, educational, work, health care use, banking interaction, dental visits, car ownership, rail and bus CCTV transport use.
Hard work for an illegal migrant to pay to fill in 10 years of a digital past.
Police images of a person interviewed? Police surveillance photo from the last international holiday under another name in another nation?
Police CCTV was kept at the time? Can a criminal who wants an international holiday under another clean name really know if their face will not alert?
International police cooperation of everyone entering another nation for a holiday going back decades.
Name and face get used too much under very different passport names globally in the 1970? 1980's? 1990's?
An entire back history gets created by a criminal in 2018 as a life story going back decades?
Did they buy their way into every needed database to add in their life of a person going back 20-60 years?
Even pattern matching can find fake created data. A doctor visit once a year on the same date for 20 years? 1 dentist visit? Car ownership copied over from another person that does not fit new random dates created to present as decades of car use?
Education paid for? Open to payments? No payments ever made? The job that had to pay back for that university? Pay tax every year but the locations don't match the medical and later educational payments?
Why stop at the person, start to look at others 2 hops around that created passport?
Same locations? Same tax? Same history? Do they exist other than names and the needed data for that created passport?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"