Face-recognition passports for travel

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The Paper Passport Is Dying

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Face recognition technology and smartphones are increasingly being used to check and confirm your identity against travel details before you can fly.

The push to remove paper passports is happening worldwide.

Privacy experts caution that there is little transparency about the technologies being deployed, and their proliferation could lead to data breaches and greater levels of surveillance.

Multiple companies around the world are building verification systems to help people prove they are who they say.

There are generally concerns about the “fairness, accountability, and transparency” with AI systems that can be used.

Different nations have data protection regimes of varying quality and standards around how people’s information can be passed to government or law enforcement agencies.

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