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Concertgoers will soon live in their own personalized version of hell above and beyond the Ticketmaster convenience fee. Live Nation, Ticketmaster's parent company, recently announced a pilot program to ditch tickets in favor of advanced facial recognition technology.
For the pilot, Ticketmaster partnered with Blink Identity, a Texas-based biometric company that previously worked to implement biometric security programs in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The company claims it can make a positive ID in "half a second," even if those being scanned aren't looking directly at its cameras. Once scanned, the system flies through a potential database of tens (or hundreds) of thousands of attendees in an attempt to make a positive ID. Only then will it grant entry to the event.
Replacing physical (or digital) tickets with advanced biometrics systems, as you might have guessed, isn't without its critics.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by messymerry on Wednesday May 16 2018, @12:54PM (9 children)
passwords can be changed. Biometrics are forever. Jumping with both feet into this boiling stew of dangerous ideas is foolhardy at best. We should approach using biometric data with caution. Pandora's box is being opened and we are pulling as hard at the lid as we can. Sadly Govt which has assumed the mantle of moderator and protector is heavily conflicted in this. They want the biometric data as much or more than the corporate fascist asshats that are collecting it.
Is the water feeling warmer to you too???
;-D
Only fools equate a PhD with a Swiss Army Knife...
(Score: 3, Funny) by datapharmer on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:22PM (5 children)
I had my face transplanted you insensitive clod.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:32PM (2 children)
Wow, this is just starting. The pilot project, right? And here we have a guy, the scalpers already cut off his face. Very scary!
(Score: 4, Funny) by SomeGuy on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:40PM (1 child)
So does an orange tint confuse facial recognition? :P
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:26AM
Very likely since the test was done a demographic which is decidedly not orange in tint. However, between all the turbans and beards, it may very well work on the hipsters - very well indeed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @06:48PM
You need to ask for a refund.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday May 16 2018, @07:05PM
Is that called a faceplant?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by nobu_the_bard on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:22PM
Face can change-
Aging, injury, disease, cosmetics, surgery, etc.
Coworker at the data center couldn't get in the other day, because the facial recognition system they have apparently learned his glasses, and he replaced the old broken ones recently. They said that's practically a daily occurrence.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:34PM (1 child)
Time to Interdict before Deployment.
Just get a court injunction against this stuff before it starts, and forbid any city to allow installation at any venues.
Play the Muslim Woman card.
Play the Witness Protection card.
Play the Black card.
Play the boycott venue and playbill card.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @06:26PM
I think we can be a little more subtle that a jihad hijab niqab.
Depends on how much Ticketmaster has donated to the DNC lately.
If they haven't payed enough protection money, the race card will be played off the bat. It's easy. Did anyone ever corroborate and refute the charge that Apple failed to use black people in its training set? I mean, it seems entirely plausible that Apple would have fucked up something like that... but after looking into the narrative that police violence affects only blacks and finding that it's barely true (not quite pants on fire in my view but hey)... anyway, what I'm suggesting is that whether or not Ticketmaster's system actually does have more trouble with black faces than faces of other races, the media could easily make it sound like it's a problem that impacts only black people.
But that doesn't help anybody who lives in the real world instead of on the reality TV show that is mainstream media news press.
The only demographic that we can hope will provide us with a mass, democratically organized resistance to this is the demographic that is expected by Western beauty standards to wear makeup. If I were in that demographic, I'd submit a picture of myself with no makeup on to Ticketmaster when I buy the ticket. Then I'd go to the concert with makeup applied, maybe taking some fashion hints [cvdazzle.com] from privacy aware makeup artists. Then when I can't get in to the concert, I could network with thousands of other people in the same boat as I and launch a class action lawsuit. Not sure if whites in the demographic that's expected to wear makeup in public have entirely fallen out of favor in the media, but if they haven't, I'll bet the DNC controlled media would be happy to do a vicious smear campaign against Ticketmaster and publish headline after headline about how everybody who works at Ticketmaster is a creepy pasty white incel alt-right soy boy homosexual micropenis neonazi who can't get laid, and that's why they intentionally designed the system from the ground up to be hateful of the demographic that's expected to wear makeup in public.