Abu Dhabi International plans to expand biometric technology throughout its entire passenger flow and become the world’s first airport to go passport-free.
My biggest concern with all of this is more data storage and privacy. I’m not necessarily opposed to biometric identity verification, because realistically this is the direction the world is heading and it probably is the best way to securely and accurately identify individuals. What I do caution is how this data can possibly be stolen, manipulated, and/or sold. Marketing companies and malicious actors would be salivating over that data, and all it takes is one fuck up to turn a reasonable identity program into a dystopian nightmare. The lighter/more benign possibility being that you just get bombarded with ads, the worse being some douche in an windowless office insinuating your propensity for crime and making life difficult.
My biggest concern with all of this is more data storage and privacy. I’m not necessarily opposed to biometric identity verification, because realistically this is the direction the world is heading and it probably is the best way to securely and accurately identify individuals. What I do caution is how this data can possibly be stolen, manipulated, and/or sold. Marketing companies and malicious actors would be salivating over that data, and all it takes is one fuck up to turn a reasonable identity program into a dystopian nightmare. The lighter/more benign possibility being that you just get bombarded with ads, the worse being some douche in an windowless office insinuating your propensity for crime and making life difficult.