NFL to begin using face scanning tech across all of its stadiums

The National Football League and all 32 of its teams will use tech from facial recognition software vendor Wicket to verify the identity of thousands of staff, media and fans as part of its credentialing program. Wicket chief operating officer Jeff Boehm touted the "big news" in a LinkedIn post: "After a pilot last season, …

[Anonymous Coward]

Subverting the System

"Our post-game data analyses show a few outliers. For example, this 'Anonymous' person drank a lot of beers!"

[Tomi Tank]

Clearview

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Buy their shares when they float. u r welcome

[Roj Blake]

Twins

Pay for permission to enter somewhere, and your identical twin gets in for free!

[ChoHag]

The speed of beer will remain unchanged.

[may_i]

Stop making up words!

"credentialing"

No, just no!

[Claverhouse]

Security

" Boehm wrote. "This will ensure that properly credentialed media, officials, staff, and guests can easily and safely access restricted areas, including the playing field, press box, or locker rooms."

Wonder how they managed before technology...

[rw.aldum]

Unsolicited Facial credentials

Where are they storing all the data and how do we get them to stop doing it because they are going to leak everything they store at some point. Stop storing and leaking my “credentials”.

[Elianadbr]

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/ftc-warns-about-misuses-biometric-information-harm-consumers

From the US Federal Trade Commission on Biometrics

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