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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: 3, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:42PM
And by and large there have been few problems with this approach.
(Sure high dollar events (Superbowl) have seen ticket scams. But these are fixable with ticket vendors using methods to prevent ticket duplication instead of relying on barcodes.)
This new proposal has NOTHING to do with that issue. Its not about ticket security.
This is aimed at getting rid of scalpers, and the whole scalper market.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.