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"You will not need to take your passport out when you board a flight at the gate because your face will be essentially your boarding pass," Geraghty said.
But it's also part of a broader push by Customs and Border Protection.
"This is really a trial to prove a way of doing biometric exit as part of the airline boarding process," said Sean Farrell, portfolio director for government solutions at SITA, the technology company that's running the experiment.
SITA is an airline IT cooperative that's responsible for much of the airport tech you see, such as the customs kiosks travelers use when they reenter the country.
"We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They're identifying the traveler," Farrell said. "It's actually the U.S. government that's implementing the biometric matching system that does all the hard analysis and crunching of the data."
https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/06/21/jetblue-facial-recognition-pilot
"You will not need to take your passport out when you board a flight at the gate because your face will be essentially your boarding pass," Geraghty said.
But it's also part of a broader push by Customs and Border Protection.
"This is really a trial to prove a way of doing biometric exit as part of the airline boarding process," said Sean Farrell, portfolio director for government solutions at SITA, the technology company that's running the experiment.
SITA is an airline IT cooperative that's responsible for much of the airport tech you see, such as the customs kiosks travelers use when they reenter the country.
"We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They're identifying the traveler," Farrell said. "It's actually the U.S. government that's implementing the biometric matching system that does all the hard analysis and crunching of the data."
https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/06/21/jetblue-facial-recognition-pilot