Fri May 20, 2022 – 7:46 pm EDT
MIAMI (LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s second-largest airport announced it’s set to roll out high-tech facial recognition software at all of its boarding gates this year, a move critics worry could erode personal privacy.
Miami International Airport (MIA) announced Monday that it will equip all of its more than 130 boarding gates with biometric facial recognition technology by 2023. The step is slated to be “the largest implementation of biometrics in any U.S. airport.”
“The project will incorporate the SITA Smart Path that allows passengers to use their face biometrics as a boarding pass using technology from NEC,” industry publication Biometric Update reported.
To board using the biometric technology, passengers will be required “to step in front of a camera at a boarding gate and have their identity verified.”
The move comes after MIA previously piloted biometric exit technology in collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in 2017, and partnered with SITA, the CBP, and Lufthansa on implementing biometric exit technology in 2019.
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