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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: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:25PM (5 children)
You cannot enter, asyou are already here. You can't enter twice.
Please stop trying to use someone else's face.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by riT-k0MA on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:35PM (3 children)
You make a valid point. What happens to identical twins?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @02:36PM
What about Carlos the Jackal?
There was an experiment run at a superbowl in the early 2000's where attendees had around 80% chance of being identified as Ilich Sanchez. Can't find a citation although I remember it from the green site and the technology doesn't appear to have improved. [arstechnica.com]
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday May 16 2018, @03:12PM
They'll eventually patch the software for that. But if you're an identical triplet, you're fucked.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday May 16 2018, @08:08PM
Actually point is off target.
The purpose (dubious as it may be) here is to make sure that the ticket matches the buyer. (That the ticket is used only once is assumed.)
It is not to assure that any given buyer enters only once.
Joe Germophobe can buy three tickets (to assure no one sits beside him), enter, exit, enter, exit enter a again, once with each ticket. (Exit and re-entry would be a pointless exercise, simply postulated here for completeness).
Each entry exhausts one ticket. Facial reco should/would not object, because Joe's face matched each ticket.
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(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Wednesday May 16 2018, @03:50PM
I gave a free Guy Fawkes mask to the guy who bought my ticket. He found it hilariously ironic.
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