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America's Transport Security Administration, better known as the TSA, has been testing facial recognition software to automatically screen passengers flying across the country in 16 airports. The equipment will snap a live photo of their face and check whether it matches with the one captured on their ID. The pilot program, testing the Credential Authentication Technology 2 system, aims to reduce security screening wait times by automating the process so TSA agents do not need to manually check IDs.

The French regulator's objection, which was echoed last year by at least the UK and the Australian regulator as well, is: "We consider this unlawful in our country. You can't go scraping people's images for this commercial purpose without their consent. And you're also not complying with GDPR rules, data destruction rules, making it easy for them to contact you and say, 'I want to opt out'." In the same way that Bletchley Park in the UK secretly employed more than 10,000 people I didn't realise this, but it turned out that there were well over 10,000 women recruited into cryptology, into cryptographic cracking, in the US to try and deal with Japanese ciphers during the war.

As with any technology, there are potential disadvantages to using facial recognition, including privacy and security issues. Privacy concerns around facial recognition technology.

We'll look at why companies are concerned about facial recognition as well as some alternatives that are both secure and friendly towards employees' concerns. The most common alternative to facial recognition would be two-factor authentication using an app such as Authy or Google Authenticator.

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Can attackers create a face mask that would defeat modern facial recognition systems? A group of researchers from from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University have proven that it can be done. "We validated our adversarial mask's effectiveness in real-world experiments by printing the adversarial pattern on a fabric face mask. In these experiments, the FR system was only able to identify 3.34% of the participants wearing the mask," they noted.

The facial recognition market size is projected to reach $12.67 billion by 2028 from $5.01 billion in 2021, growing at a CAGR of 14.2% from 2021 to 2028, according to the Insight Partners. The use of facial recognition has grown due to rising applications in physical security and intelligent signage, as well as increasing technological improvements such as cloud-based services and 3D-based recognition systems.

Eurostar is testing a new biometric facial recognition technology on passengers traveling from London's St Pancras International station to continental Europe. The system will involve two facial scans, one at the ticket gate to verify the ticket check and one at the UK Exit Checkpoint, to confirm that the passport information is valid.

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Facebook's newly-rebranded parent company Meta on Tuesday announced plans to discontinue its decade-old "Face Recognition" system and delete a massive trove of more than a billion users' facial recognition templates as part of a wider initiative to limit the use of the technology across its products. The Menlo Park tech giant described the about-face as "One of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology's history."