America's National Football League "is the latest organization to turn to facial authentication to bolster event security," reports the Record, citing a new announcement this week:
All 32 NFL stadiums will start using the technology this season, after the league signed a contract with a company th...
Do they not already have access to the beginnings of this through driver’s license photos?
I’d also be shocked if there aren’t companies offering identification services based on scraping publicly uploaded pictures off social media (mainly facebook due to connection to real identity).
Like, I hate this, but I’m not sure there’s a reasonable counter to it.
While not connecting to your personal identity, you can be tracked through multiple camera feeds of a crowd through gait analysis already. Tie that into getting your identity by paying with a card at one of the in-stadium vendors and boom. Alternatively, they know when you entered by scanning your ticket, what entrance it was scanned at, and the name associated with the ticket. So now you can say “Persons 345-367 entered from west entrance when John Snow’s ticket was scanned, so he’s one of them. Let’s cross reference it with demographics data available on him from a third party.”
I’m just not sure there’s a safe, private way to attend big sports games as it is without putting in a ton of effort.
Driver’s license isn’t recognized while you’re walking down the street and a camera facially recognizes you.
You don’t need to be shocked about data scraping and identification. Been around for a very long time.
Yes they know where you entered by scanning your ticket but this misses the point. I’m not handing my facial data to some conglomerate that does God knows what with it. They’re 100% not just going to stop at validating it’s your ticket then throw away the data. Zero chance.
Right, but that’s a lot more work. Costs them, time and effort and processing costs and power.
Its not sustainable or scalable at that form factor