Articles tagged “biometrics”

With the ongoing backlash against companies improperly sharing and using data in recent months, facial scans will be a tough sell to many travelers especially if they're implemented by the government.

Business travelers are embracing the increasing use of facial-recognition software and fingerprint reading at airports to speed lines, but privacy advocates raise concerns about the security of information and its potential use.

Even as tests go, this is a tiny one. But it shows what's possible with biometrics. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go through the airport without showing a boarding pass or passport?

Consumers are more comfortable with biometrics than ever, and we can probably thank Apple for that. Now airlines are starting to ask whether they might use facial recognition, fingerprints or iris scans to make the passenger experience better. Here's hoping they succeed.

As travelers hear about terror attacks and threats that likely influence how they feel about handling their own safety and personal information, airlines gave travelers plenty of reasons to doubt their proper use of biometrics long before a worldwide travel alert was issued.

Employees love new tech too and do their jobs better with it. Hotels that forget about empowering employees with better tools aren't helping maximize their performances.

Big Brother is already watching. He may as well help get us to our destination quicker, and with less hassle, while he's at it.

These sorts of biometrics will soon become standard at modern airports. The airport of the future, in some respects, has already arrived.

Following Qatar's use of similar technology, Dubai Airport's use of an iris scan and facial recognition system to whisk passengers through immigration checkpoints could be a model for other airports if it passes the security sniff test.