Australia Is Testing the Face Recognition as a Passport Substitution

While the project was unveiled in early 2017, the first face recognition tests have taken place the July 2nd week for some international flights from Sydney.

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Australia takes another step towards replacing passport controls for the benefit of a control by face recognition. The most complete bio-metric tests are beginning to be made by the Qantas airline company in direct partnership with the Sydney airport. For now, only passengers travelling on some international flights can experiment this technology.

Towards the end of the paper passports?

"In the future, there won’t be any passports left... Your face will be your passport and your boarding pass in every stage of the process", has declared Geoff Culbert, CEO of the Sydney airport.

He seems certain that such a transformation is inevitable and that we can’t content our-self with simple paper passports. This identity digitization can be seen as a way to prevent terrorism and to strengthen the customs controls and to reduce/remove the error possibility.

In a parallel to it, the purpose is to automate the recording, the boarding, the luggage removal as well as the access to lounges. It would be about a considerable time saving, as well for airports and airline companies as travelers themselves. Besides, the customer relationships manager of Qantas, Vanessa Hudson explains: "The customers of Qantas can register for their flights through this technology, which will also allow our teams to propose more personalized customer experiences in our lounges".

A technology to be spread on the long term

Naturally, with 43 million passengers frequenting the Sydney airport every year, the applying of such a technology is not overnight made. It’s thus a heavy project and the consequences from a security point of view or still the respect of private life can’t be neglected. That’s enough to make certain government members or big institutions skeptical. Nevertheless, Sydney is not the only airport to try the experience, Brisbane and Singapore are also making tests to digitize themself step by step.

What are your point of view? Should we give priority to our security or to our privacy? What are the limits that should be put in place?

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