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It looks like a lot of FindBiometrics readers are eager to start travelling again. At least, safe air travel appears to be top of mind, judging by this week’s roundup of our most popular articles. NEC, for example, got a lot of attention with its news that it will provide facial recognition and temperature screening […]
NEC has agreed to provide facial recognition and temperature screening technology for Hawaii’s airports after signing a new contract with the state’s Department of Transportation. The agreement represents the combined efforts of NEC Corporation, NEC America, and Infrared Cameras, all of which contributed to the winning proposal for the project. The contract is worth around […]
Delta has released a short primer that provides travelers with more information about its biometric screening program. The airline is hoping that the primer will make passengers feel more comfortable with facial recognition, which will in turn encourage more people to embrace contactless screening technologies. In that regard, the primer reflects the growing interest in […]
The Eurostar rail line between the UK and France is expanding passengers’ opportunities to take advantage of biometric processing, thanks to a new partnership with iProov. The service is being facilitated via iProov’s biometric mobile authentication technology, which is designed to match a user’s face against the image on their identity document. The technology is […]
Vision-Box has secured a five-year contract with London’s Gatwick Airport. According to the terms of the Framework Agreement, Vision-Box will first replace the airport’s current legacy equipment with its Orchestra Services Platform, and then provide ongoing updates to deliver more efficient end-to-end passenger processing for the duration of the contract. The partnership will allow travelers […]
Biometrics-based expedited screening systems have continued to spread to more airports around the world over the past year. In the US these have taken a few different forms, such as TSA PreCheck, Nexus, and the expanding CLEAR program, in which travelers register their biometrics ahead of time in order to speed up the screening process […]
Vision-Box is moving forward with a pilot of its Seamless Flow One-ID platform at the Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy. The platform uses facial recognition technology to reduce the amount of time that travelers need to move through the airport. The pilot will last for a period of six months, and will only be available […]
Vision-Box is at the forefront of the digital identity conversation at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where Business Development VP Richard Camman sat on a panel that discussed ways to cultivate “A More Useful, Safe and Valuable Identity” for the digital economy. During the panel, Camman noted that air travel is expected […]
“The moratorium will be in place until the commission is able to establish concrete policies concerning the use of facial recognition.” Administrators of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, or Sea-Tac, have implemented a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology in the parts of the airport over which they have jurisdiction, putting a halt to […]
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has announced it has abandoned its plans to require U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country to submit to facial scans as an expansion of its Biometric Exit program. “There are no current plans to require U.S. citizens to provide photographs upon entry and exit from the United […]
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