The Struggle to Turn Your Face Into Secure Travel ID
The travel industry is experimenting with a variety of biometric identification technologies to speed passengers’ trips.
A woman boarding an SAS flight to Copenhagen goes through VeriScan, a facial recognition-verification system at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, on Sept. 6, 2018.
Photographer: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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The global travel industry is looking to replace your paper tickets and security documents with your biometric data in an effort to ease gridlock.
The International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN’s aviation body, met last week in Montreal to discuss ways to bridge the gulf between physical and digital travel documents.