Tokyo Olympics will use facial recognition to improve security

guest · Aug 7, 2018

Tokyo Olympics will use facial recognition to improve security
Just for athletes and staff, not sports fans.
August 07, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/tokyo-olympics-will-use-facial-recognition-to-improve-security/

Tokyo 2020 will break a tech record by becoming the the first Olympics to use facial recognition technology.

The technology will be used to identify athletes, officials, staff and media at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, the organizing committee said on Tuesday. It won't be used to identify spectators attending the Games.

Using the technology is meant to improve security and speed entrance for authorized persons, the committee said in a blog post. [...] The company will collect images of authorized persons beforehand and store them in a database for cross checking at entry points.

"This latest technology will enable strict identification of accredited people compared with relying solely on the eyes of security staff, and also enables swift entry to venues which will be necessary in the intense heat of summer," Tsuyoshi Iwashita, executive director of security for the Tokyo 2020 Games, wrote in the blog post.
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mirimir · Aug 7, 2018

That actually does make some sense

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