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14-Feb-2018 12:55 PM

Biometric facial technology at airports: limits, but moving ahead, with President Trump's support

Analysis

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has implemented biometric facial recognition (BFR) as a security measure, under a test procedure.

Several other U.S. airports, and others around the world, are trialling the same technology, or different versions of it. The impetus has come from a U.S. President Trump highly focused on security and immigration, and it may be adopted widely before long, taking precedence over fingerprint and iris-recognition technologies.

But no technology is perfect, and there remains work to be done in this area.

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