{"id":332721,"date":"2025-12-19T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/new-facial-recognition-technology-airports\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:00:16","slug":"passport-in-pockets-the-new-facial-recognition-technology-coming-to-some-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=332721","title":{"rendered":"Passport In Pockets: The New Facial-Recognition Technology Coming To Some Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who has happened to have passed through <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261114\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/orlando-international-airport\/\"  >Orlando International Airport<\/a><\/span> (MCO) over the last few weeks, the scene at select international gates has appeared more like a science-fiction preview of technology one could never have imagined existed. Travelers stroll through a corridor of cameras, and, in seconds, a screen flashes &#8220;verified,&#8221; and sends them on towards departure without ever pulling a passport or boarding pass from a pocket or bag. This is the first high-profile rollout in the United States of next-generation facial recognition technology that aims to replace traditional identity checks for international flights. As part of a 90-day pilot program at the nation&#8217;s ninth-busiest airport, biometric systems from multiple vendors are capturing and matching live facial images against government identity records to confirm passenger identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new technology could significantly speed up passenger processing at airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,8136,43,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-passport","category-safety","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332722,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332721\/revisions\/332722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}