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