Qantas passengers to trial facial recognition tech at Sydney Airport

guest · Jul 5, 2018

Qantas passengers to trial facial recognition tech at Sydney Airport
July 5, 2018
https://www.zdnet.com/article/qantas-passengers-to-trial-facial-recognition-tech-at-sydney-airport/

Some passengers travelling internationally via Qantas will be trialling biometric technology at Sydney Airport, with the first stage using facial recognition for them to complete automated flight check-in and bag drop, gain access to the lounge, and board the plane itself.

Sydney Airport said consent is actively sought from all passengers and the "strictest level of privacy" is adhered to on behalf of those participating in the trial.

"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 -- your face will be your passport and your boarding pass at every step of the process."

Face Verification Service (FVS) [...] Access to the FIS will be limited to police and security agencies, or specialist fraud prevention areas within agencies that issue passports, and immigration and citizenship documents.
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guest · Jun 24, 2019

Australia's future airport is closer than you think
Your biometric information will continue to be captured and the trade off is efficiency
June 24, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-future-airport-is-closer-than-you-think/

Within the next five years, passengers travelling through Australia airports can expect a "seamless" journey, where they don't need to touch or produce a single thing until they empty their pockets and offload their bags for screening at airport security.

"It's not so seamless today, but I think that's where the future is going to be, where there is as little touchpoints as possible by using biometrics ... with your face as your passport and your body parts," she said.
Some of it is already happening today.
Passengers travelling internationally from Australia via Qantas have been trialling biometric technology at Sydney Airport since July last year [...]

"We're working with industry to have a single standard for biometrics, because there are so many different biometrics out there and airports are trialling different sorts of biometric technology, so there needs to be a standard so that it [avoids being disjointed]," she explained.
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