Ticketmaster To Use Facial Recognition In Place of Tickets for Venue Entry

guest · May 7, 2018

Ticketmaster To Use Facial Recognition In Place of Tickets for Venue Entry
May 7, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ognition-in-place-of-tickets-for-venue-entry/

Included in the Live Nation's first quarter 2018 financial results released last week, was a small mention that they have partnered with and invested in a facial recognition company called Blink Identity. Live Nation's plan is to use this technology to allow ticket holders to gain access to shows without a ticket using facial recognition.
According to Blink Identity's web site, users simply walk past their system at normal speed and their image is captured and matched against a database of facial images in a half a second. If a match is taken place and a ticket is linked to the ticket holder's profile, they would be allowed entry to the event.
Facial recognition a privacy concern & can be defeated
Facial recognition is a major concern for privacy advocates for fear that this technology can be used by governments and corporations to track individuals and the places they visit. Using Blink Identity's technology, even those who are not using these types of tickets would still be entered into their database simply by walking past the sensor. This could allow Ticketmaster to quickly compile a large database of U.S. citizen's facial images that could be subpoenaed by the U.S. government during investigations.

It is not known at this time if this technology will be mandatory in the future for Ticketmaster venues and when it will begin testing. BleepingComputer has reached out to Live Nation for comments, but have not heard back at the time of this publication.
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Palancar · May 7, 2018

The life my Grandchildren are going to have because of all this crap scares me. I am glad I was born when I was.

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