Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation has announced that they are partnering with a facial recognition company called Blink Identity, Engadget reports. According to Live Nation’s first quarter financial report, Blink Identity has developed “cutting-edge facial recognition technology, enabling you to associate your digital ticket with your image, then just walk into the show.” Blink Identity claims that they can register a users face the moment they walk past a sensor, matching the users face against their massive database in half a second.
Blink Identity’s facial recognition software is purportedly so fast that event attendees will not even have to stop walking for it to identify their face and grant them access to the venue — they simply have to walk towards the entrance and if the users face is recognized, the turnstiles or door will allow them to enter. This new form of ticketing may be convenient for some, but there has been many issues with facial recognition software in the past. Aside from issues of user privacy and the “creepy-factor” due to some users not liking the idea of having their faces scanned, often facial recognition software is simply not accurate.
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no thank you
And here it comes!!!! Just Like I said...
Don't go then. Everything is going to be digital soon. You old paranoid people will just sit at home and read the bible because you can't do or go anywhere.
Sounds like a great way to stop the scalping of tickets! Good, do it.
Oh here come the basement dwellers.
Do you have any idea how much facial recognition software reduced violence in Europe at sporting events?
Not all technology is evil. The irony is you fear this technology yet chances you’ve probably seen the latest Star Wars or Black Panther movie 27 times along with all your other friends that have never gotten laid.
Somebody read Orwell 1984!!!
3:17& 10:30. Sure keep thinking that EVIL will not prevail no matter how good the tool is. Atomic energy, guns computers, cashless encomies, etc and this. Its all for the common good at first. But be careful what you wish for. Deny the truth of the bibles word at your own risk. Thats your right. Im sure you all will be first in line to receive your mark.
Just remember you were warned.
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
If you have a MD driver's license, you already have a digital facial recognition scan on file. That is why they want you to remove glasses and not smile.
7:34 PM not sure what you are talking about because I have my glasses on in my photo
7:33 The bible isn't part of my religion. You believe what you want. We will stick with ours.
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