Reply to post: Re: Why would this be faster?

Your ugly mug may be scanned yet again – but at least you'll be able to board faster at Gatwick

elaar

Re: Why would this be faster?

Besides, if this technology enables faster boarding of the aircraft, then isn't this solving a problem of their own making, which is not employing enough people to check passports to begin with?

So essentially they're stating it's to our advantage that they're using facial recognition technology (with inherent privacy concerns) because they don't want to employ enough staff to handle the traditional checking.

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