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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by wccrawford on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:04AM (#17959764)
>If someone's boarding pass isn't correct or there's some other issue, there gets to be a big backlog while they get sorted out.

And that's still going to be the case with facial recognition.

The only time saved is scanning a ticket vs scanning a face. And people are pretty much guaranteed not to lose their faces.

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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:13AM (#17959852)
> And that's still going to be the case with facial recognition.

Not if it's an automated gate.

I just got back from Australia, and the passport gates there are automated facial recognition; they look kinda like the gates in a subway where you scan a travel card.

A reject heads over to the desk to get sorted. Everyone else keeps going through the automated gate.

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