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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 SanityCheck on Thursday May 17 2018, @06:50AM
What if there are two people at the stadium with "a face only a mother could love", wouldn't that cause issues? And there will be at least a dozen "butter-faces".