AUSTRALIA FORGET PASSPORTS FOR IMMIGRATION CLEARANCE YOUR FACE WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER OR LEAVE AS VISION BOX AUSTRALIA ROLLING OUT NEW SMART GATE TECHNOLOGY WITH INSTALLATION OF 105 NEW SMART GATES AS ANNOUNCED BY IMMIGRATION MINISTER ON 26TH JULY 2017
Facial recognition technology to replace passports at Australian airports
Vision-Box Australia will be rolling out new smart gate technology that is expected to negate the need for 'known passengers' to hand over their passports.
New technology will be rolled out at Australian airports that will eventually see the end of "known passengers" producing their passports when arriving in the country.
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton said on Wednesday the new AU$22.5 million, three-year contract will initially see 105 new smartgates rolled out that will enable passengers to be processed using facial recognition.
It is estimated 40 million people cleared Australia's borders last year, with the figure tipped to reach 50 million in three years, the minister said in a statement.
"The idea of this will be through new technology that is using facial recognition that in some cases if you've got a passport that can be read you won't even have to present the passport," Dutton told the Seven Network. "It will make it much quicker going through the immigration process."
Vision-Box Australia will be charged with rolling out the technology.
Vision-Box, headquartered in Portugal, recently implemented a facial recognition pilot program at New York's JFK Airport, an initiative led by Delta and US Customs and Border Protection.
Speaking at the ASIAL Security Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, Neil Campbell, director of Security Practice at Telstra, explained that Telstra is deploying its own facial recognition technology at its two new Security Operations Centres (SOCs) which will be opened next month in both Melbourne and Sydney.
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