In the next five years, boarding passes, passports, and tickets for buses, trains, and the Tube may become obsolete, with facial recognition technology replacing them.
This technology could also be used for added security in healthcare, allowing GPs and hospital staff to confirm medical records using facial recognition.
However, concerns are rising as Germany and France have warned that the EU’s new biometric border system, set to launch on November 10, is not yet ready. The Entry Exit System, which is still untested, will require non-EU citizens, including British travelers, to queue at immigration for fingerprint and facial image logging.
Jake Moore, from cybersecurity firm ESET, stated, “Facial recognition will be integrated into nearly every aspect of our lives in the coming years.”
But referencing 2002 Tom Cruise sci-fi film Minority Report, he went on: “There are lots of pros about it but, used badly, facial recognition technology is terrifying and poses great danger.
“If it falls into the wrong hands, we could see a Minority Report-style future, where people are arrested before they commit a crime, or stores know who you are before you enter.”
The tech takes a 3D scan of a face, then measures the distances between the eyes, ears and nose.
It then uses the data to create a biometric profile that is unique to each person.
Apple recently launched biometric tech on phones, while face recognition could soon be used in schools.
Britain is about to embark on a future where facial recognition technology will be used throughout everyday life – at home, schools, shops and hospitals.
The super-smart tech, predicted to be worth £15billion by 2032, is set to replace house and car keys and will even be used to take school registers.
Jake continued: “In the future the register could be taken via facial recognition.
“All it takes is one school to say that they’ve reduced crime or truancy by using this new technology and it could take off.”
In hospitals and other healthcare environments, facial recognition could add to security.
Nicole Martinez-Martin, assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics in ¬California, said: “Facial recognition technology is being used for monitoring in long-term care homes for older people to see comings and goings.
“The tech can identify patients, match medical records and secure and audit people’s access to certain areas within a hospital.”
Software called Face2Gene can scan a face to detect signs of rare diseases. It is already used in America and could soon be rolled out here.
Source: Dunya News