Facial Recognition

Kolkata airport gets DigiYatra, check-in with facial recognition tech

Passengers travelling through the Kolkata airport will now be able to check in for their flights and board planes with facial recognition technology as DigiYatra was rolled out here on Friday, an official statement said. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is the fourth one in the country after airports in Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi have the facility that provides a seamless entry and embarkation process for air passengers. DigiYatra' was rolled out in those three airports in the first phase in December last year. "Its main objective is to enhance passenger experience by eliminating the need for verification of ticket and ID at multiple touch points and to achieve better movement of passengers through existing infrastructure using a digital framework," the Kolkata airport said in a statement. The trials of the technology started at the Kolkata airport on February 21, and till Thursday, 9,206 passengers utilised the facility. Passengers travelling through Air India

Explained: How 'Digi Yatra' reads one's face as the boarding pass

At the launch, Scindia said Digi Yatra will be one of the most efficient systems in the world

DigiYatra data will be saved in decentralised manner, says Scindia

Passenger data shared for DigiYatra will be saved in an encrypted format in a decentralised manner, according to Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The government on Thursday launched DigiYatra, which is based on facial recognition technology for air passengers, at Delhi, Bangalore and Varanasi airports. DigiYatra will be launched at four more airports -- Hyderabad, Pune, Vijayawada and Kolkata -- by March next year. Later, DigiYatra will be rolled out at other airports in the country, Scindia said at a briefing here. It will be available for passengers taking domestic flights. At Delhi airport, DigiYatra will be available for passengers taking domestic flights from Terminal 3 (T3). Scindia said DigiYatra data is stored in a decentralised manner. The minister was responding to queries about the privacy of data shared for DigiYatra. The data will be saved in an encrypted format and blockchain technology is being used. The data is stored in passengers' phones and the d

NITI Aayog seeks clarity from Centre on Digi Yatra's data privacy

NITI Aayog seeks that the rules related to deletion of other information collected from the passengers must be clearly set out in Digi Yatra's policy

Measuring jawlines: Decoding the new face recognition system at airports

Passengers will have to download the DigiYatra app, create a profile, and register at an airport when using the system for the first time

Delhi, Bengaluru airports start facial recognition for quicker boarding

Digi Yatra facility is voluntary for passengers and it keeps their data safe, say officials

Ukraine starts using facial recognition software during war: Report

Ukraine is receiving free access to Clearview AI's powerful search engine

Facial recognition tech at 4 airports to be introduced by March 2022: Govt

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is working on a project of FRT-based Biometric Boarding System as part of the first phase of Digi Yatra Implementation at four airports

ForPaws: The app that uses facial recognition tech to help find lost pets

Recently launched by MARS Petcare, the world's leading pet food company, the app also leveraging technology to spread the message about how one can provide care for pets as a community

Meta to continue using facial recognition feature for metaverse products

Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it would be shutting down its facial recognition systems

US lawmakers introduce legislation to ban facial recognition tech by govt

A group of US lawmakers has introduced a bicameral legislation to stop government use of biometric technology, including facial recognition tools

Amazon to continue pause on police use of facial recognition technology

Amazon said Tuesday that it will continue to ban police use of its face-recognition technology beyond the one-year ban it announced last year

Facial recognition, other 'risky' AI set for constraints in European Union

Digital rights group EDRI has warned against loopholes for public security exceptions use of the technology

Dubai set to introduce facial recognition system on public transport

The emirate already operates a biometric system using facial recognition at its international airport

J&K Civil Secretariat staff to mark attendance via facial recognition setup

The use of the biometric attendance system, which requires people to put a finger on the surface of the scanner, was suspended after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in March this year

Facial Recognition technology in the line of fire over inaccuracies

Despite having many positive applications, facial-recognition technology has been criticised for some time now on the allegation of potential bias

RailTel to provide video surveillance at 6,049 stations across country

The scope of work also includes integration of the existing standalone CCTV network of the railways into the VSS system for centralised monitoring

After IBM & Amazon, Microsoft stops selling face recognition tech to police

Microsoft's president and chief counsel, Brad Smith, announced the decision and called on Congress to regulate the technology during a Washington Post video event on Thursday

Amazon bans police use of its face recognition for a year amid criticism

Floyd died May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into the handcuffed black man's neck for several minutes even after Floyd stopped moving and pleading for air

IBM drops facial recognition software amid racial profiling concerns

Krishna on Monday sent the letter to Congress outlining detailed policy proposals to advance racial equality in America