Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass

Re:Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass by cafard on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:36AM (#29473546)

Something over twenty years ago, I met my father and stepmother at Dulles. He had adhesive tape all over his nose from a fall on vacation. I wonder how that would have worked.

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Re:Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass by toomuchtodo on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:22PM (#29479456)

The same way TSA verifies your face against your physical identity credential: a margin of error, with additional proofing performed if your face isn’t enough (you can fly without a government ID, for example, if you show up a bit earlier at the TSA checkpoint for additional screening/proofing).

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification (control-f Forgot Your ID?)

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Re:Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass by usrbinbash on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:14AM (#29483837)

Or we could just use the existing technology, which is more reliable, simpler, cheaper, requires less expensive gear, is easier to set up and maintain, can be explained to the layperson in 2-3 sentences, and offers far less chance for bad actors to abuse it.

Just because something is more complex, doesn't make it better.

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