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Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong?

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 16 2018, @12:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-I-know-you? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow0245

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.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2018/05/15/ticketmaster-plans-to-roll-out-facial-recognition-systems-for-events-what-could-go-wrong/

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:32PM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:32PM (#680385) Homepage Journal

    Wow, this is just starting. The pilot project, right? And here we have a guy, the scalpers already cut off his face. Very scary!

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by SomeGuy on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:40PM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:40PM (#680393)

    So does an orange tint confuse facial recognition? :P

    • (Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:26AM

      by arslan (3462) on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:26AM (#680613)

      a Texas-based biometric company that previously worked to implement biometric security programs in both Afghanistan and Iraq

      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.