At airports, facial recognition helps improve security and efficiency. But it has privacy ramifications.
For speedier entry into the U.S., your most important travel tool is now your face.
A US customs officer at San Francisco International Airport processes arriving passengers with the use of a camera connected to a facial comparison technology called “Simplified Arrival,” Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.
Facial recognition is already a familiar part of smartphones, supplanting passwords. Most banks use “FaceID” to let customers securely log onto mobile banking apps. Target, Walmart and Lowe’s are experimenting with facial recognition to combat shoplifting and fraud, identifying known thieves. A US customs officer at San Francisco International Airport processes arriving passengers with the use of a camera connected to a facial comparison technology called “Simplified Arrivals,” Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.
“Once you have someone’s biometric information, you have it for life,” he said. “You can change your credit card number. You can change your Social Security number. But you can never change your face. And so even if a program is only tracking our faces for one purpose today, it’s creating the biometric infrastructure to track it — however agencies may want to — in future years.”
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