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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, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:24PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:24PM (#680434)

    Ticketmaster is effectively a monopoly for large-venue big-name rock concerts. Through contracts, it effectively prevents any competitors from forming. Those contracts should be illegal, but aren't.

    So, kids, whatcha gonna do? Skip out on seeing those shows, or continue to put up with that kind of treatment? For those on the fence, let me remind you that (a) Youtube exists and every idiot there is with their videocamera on trying to get a shot of the show, and (b) you can do drugs at places other than rock concerts.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:04PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:04PM (#680452) Journal

    Or go to small venue shows and enjoy yourself more.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:50PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:50PM (#680465) Journal

    Through contracts, it effectively prevents any competitors from forming. Those contracts should be illegal, but aren't.

    Easy to solve. Ticketmaster does not own venues. Venues are in Cities. Cities need merely outlaw the installation of facial recognition controlled gates at any venue in their jurisdiction. Violation of privacy.

    (And I wouldn't put it past Ticketmaster to contract for a Bataclan event to change local government's mind).

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