Originally Posted by
SeriouslyLost
Many (most?) do, however, store the photo image and that can be used for recognition via recognition technology.
Coincidentally, I was reading the New Zealand Immigration department is starting a project next quarter to use facial recognition tech and data matching against the passports and issuing authority database for entry purposes. Just use case and road map study at this point, but from what I was reading, likely to go into effect if they can be certain the issuing authority data is secure, accessible in real time, and reliable.
FRT sales/purchases for this purpose have indeed ramped up big time. It's certainly been making my acquaintances, near and dear or otherwise, a pretty penny and then some; but it is known that FRT isn't perfect and has negative and positive match error issues too. Most of the public has little to no clue that FRT is being used very extensively in public areas .... inclusive of airports.
FRT stored data may end up being misused too, but I have doubts that it is as easy to effectively misuse as fingerprint data.
The passport control types in neighboring Australia were participants in a study that showed how unreliable they are at matching pictures with people in front of them.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...ing-uk-4071403
Many a toddler would be as or more effective in face matching games.