The system of biometric registration for flights is started

At the beginning of July, 2018 at the airport of Sydney the system of face recognition used for registration for flights earned. Experts consider that this project will draw great attention of the public as it is about work with confidential data.

Passengers of some international runs of Qantas airline had an opportunity to undergo passport control without direct presentation of the identity certificate and the boarding pass. The special equipment scans the traveller's person, allowing to pass in a zone of a departure or an arrival without accumulation of queues.

At the airport of Sydney the system of face recognition used for registration for flights earned

Your person will become your passport and the boarding pass at each stage of use of the airport — the director of the international airport in Sydney Geoff Culbert noted, having added that now it will not be necessary to dig in pockets or bags for search of the international passport.

Everyone will be able to participate in system testing. Will explain those who agreed to try a biometric system the principles of collecting and data storage. For participation in an experiment of passengers should come into the special box where they will be photographed, will scan passports and will register tickets, having established connection between a photo of the person, the passport and information on armoring.

The government of Australia is going to invest about $16.6 million in implementing sensing technologies of persons at all Australian airports within the national SmartGate project which should be complete by March, 2019.

Professor of the University of Canberra and the expert in confidentiality Bruce Baer Arnold considers that the biometric systems will appear not only at the airports of Australia, but also at railway and bus stations and also in public places, like shopping centers, stadiums or city squares.^[1]

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