Sydney Airport Launches Face Scan Check-In Trials (techcrunch.com) 46
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."
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So they can determine when Kim Dotcom arrives asking for political asylum.
If Kim Dotcom arrives asking for political asylum, I don't think they're going to need facial recognition software to "catch" him. He's going to stand in front of an immigration agent and say "I'm Kim Dotcom and I am seeking political asylum."
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Quantas? (Score:5, Informative)
And before anyone says "u" always comes after "q", it's because it was actually an acronym: Queensland And Northern Territory Ariel Services
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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
Aerial ( not Ariel ) is the correct spelling.
If you're going to be pedantic you need to get your details right.
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Can someone fix the spelling for Ariel?
It's Aerial.
No it was spelt rite the first time. The QANTAS logo may look like a kangaroo to the untrained eye, but really it's more of a mermaid.
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The QANTAS logo may look like a kangaroo to the untrained eye, but really it's more of a mermaid.
When you've been in the outback too long . . . kangaroos start to look like mermaids.
". . . where the men are men, and the kangaroos scared . . . "
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When you've been in the outback too long . . . kangaroos start to look like mermaids.
". . . where the men are men, and the kangaroos scared . . . "
No way. Kangaroos are nasty fuckers when they want to be. muscly as fuck [ibxk.com.br] territorial, cranky and fast. They will hurt you.
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That's not the worst of it - they mainly attack with the legs, which are even longer, even stronger and have even bigger claws on them. They can rip your giblets out.
This is probably the reason they also have retractable bollocks.
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Can someone fix the spelling for Qantas?
QWANTASS
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Some nations had no working passport system. Anyone could "get" paperwork and become an illegal migrant later getting paper work in some other nation.
Random people with a criminal past would buy a fake passport. Documents to create a new passports got shared. People would create a new life in another nation and create an entire new set of paperwork.
An intelligent service of another nation is using a real passport stolen in a nation to do their own
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What would a stupid service do, then?
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Be ready to confirm a needed identity at any time on the provided phone number.
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There was no problem with how passports worked.
Never had a passport, or used one to travel, I see.
Having to juggle documents when traveling is a problem. People forget which pocket their boarding pass is in. They stand in line watching everyone else show a boarding pass to get on, and then start searching for theirs when they get to the front of the line.
I carry mine in my pocket when I'm abroad, just so I always have ID with me. Problem: they absorb water when you sweat, start to become unreadable. Before I started solving the problem by carrying it
What inconvenience? (Score:2)
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!
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You hang around airports long enough, you see all sorts of things. Some people just don't seem to have the urge or self awareness to optimize in such a setting. They'll stand in line with ample time to get their papers ready, clearly watching the entire process go down repeatedly, but instead wait until they're at the counter to start digging through their purse.
Not quite (Score:4, Funny)
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.
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Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
You might actually have a brilliant idea there . . .
. . . let Google Duplex AI Voice check in for you!
No more waiting in line.
Quick! Patent it, before Google does!
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Something like and advanced 100 point check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] 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 wit
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The history will, of course, be in blockchain.
If air travel ain't screwy enough (Score:1)
"Welcome to Creepy Airlines, formally known as Crying Baby Airlines."
Correction [Re:If air travel ain't screwy enough (Score:1)
Correction, "formerly known as"