“It works like this: credential holders snap a selfie, Wicket scans the resulting image and compares it to a photo on file to verify their identity as people pass a security checkpoint. Credentialing software provided by UK outfit Accredit Solutions helps to make those checks and determine access rights.”
•I have never heard of/used Accredit Solutions or Wicket so how tf are you comparing it to a photo on file?
“Last year, the franchise also offered spectators the chance to scan a ticket as they entered the ground, which then enabled pre-registered facial biometrics and credit card details to be used at an “Express Beer” lane that allowed acquisition of suds without having do anything more than grin in the right direction.”
•Wow, fuck all the way off w all this shit!
So much for going to anymore sporting events 😫🥴
I’m sure this will go well and is certainly much easier than having badges and security. It’s definitely not a massive ploy to harvest more data from the public and sell to the highest bidder
Harvest what data?
Biometric data of individuals faces. Biggest buyer for that market would be law enforcement/government I’d expect.
I imagine the vast majority of people have driver’s licenses, the government already has a picture of your face.
That is a single datapoint and typically not recent. More data. More data. More data!
Locations and timelines, gait recordings, clothing… Advertisers will love to have that as well
Doesn’t need to be your government who’s buying. The picture on your license also doesn’t come with meta data about your whereabouts when you decide to go to something as simple as a sporting event.
Yeah, that information would just be conveyed by the tickets you paid for with your name on them.
Didn’t realize a picture of my face was on my football ticket as well.
So you said the government would buy it, so I pointed out that the government already has a facial picture of you. Your counterpoint is that it doesn’t have to be the government, in which case, why did you mention it. And then you said it’s because it would have meta data on your location, which is weird considering you would have bought tickets with your name on them through payment methods tied to your name. This isn’t some local high school game we’re talking about here.
They should really use a photo of an NFL team for their article about something the NFL is looking to do. You know, rather than West Virginia University.
and get on a list for using the national football league’s photographic assets without express written permission? facebanned
Get an image fron a vhs cassette it will be fine
… but why?
To database and sell your biometric data at the expense of privacy under the guise of convenience. This is contemporary business 101. First either steal data or lie through a grinning face to acquire data, then sell the data.
I’ll say the same thing I say at the airport.
“I would like to opt-out please”