no more fingerprinting?
May 27, 2014, 3:59 pm
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no more fingerprinting?
My SO flew into ORD last week and reports that there was no "put fingers on glass" prompt at the GE machine.
Makes sense since there's now a stop at a counter where a human looks at your passport photo and at you. Also the fingerprint scanning has been hugely trouble-prone although not for us.
But usually such developments are reported on FT the first hour they happen, and I can't find another post on it here...
Makes sense since there's now a stop at a counter where a human looks at your passport photo and at you. Also the fingerprint scanning has been hugely trouble-prone although not for us.
But usually such developments are reported on FT the first hour they happen, and I can't find another post on it here...
Last edited by SeeBuyFly; May 27, 2014 at 5:44 pm
May 27, 2014, 7:04 pm
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A few weeks ago I renewed my GE; I had to go for an "interview", which consisted of taking a new photo and set of fingerprints--if they were planning to remove that step from GE processing terminal, it seems odd (to me) that they had to get a new set.
May 27, 2014, 7:08 pm
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My SO flew into ORD last week and reports that there was no "put fingers on glass" prompt at the GE machine.
Makes sense since there's now a stop at a counter where a human looks at your passport photo and at you. Also the fingerprint scanning has been hugely trouble-prone although not for us.
But usually such developments are reported on FT the first hour they happen, and I can't find another post on it here...
Makes sense since there's now a stop at a counter where a human looks at your passport photo and at you. Also the fingerprint scanning has been hugely trouble-prone although not for us.
But usually such developments are reported on FT the first hour they happen, and I can't find another post on it here...
http://www.flychicago.com/OHare/EN/A...t-Control.aspx
May 27, 2014, 7:17 pm
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You sure she didn't go to the new(ish) self service kiosk instead of the GE kiosk by mistake?
http://www.flychicago.com/OHare/EN/A...t-Control.aspx
http://www.flychicago.com/OHare/EN/A...t-Control.aspx
May 28, 2014, 7:37 am
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If they're going to do a manual check, it might make sense to eliminate one step.
That said, better to eliminate the manual check, which created sizable GE backups when I entered at ORD last year. The only place it's taken me more than 1 minute to get done with GE.
That said, better to eliminate the manual check, which created sizable GE backups when I entered at ORD last year. The only place it's taken me more than 1 minute to get done with GE.
May 28, 2014, 10:50 am
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My SO flew into ORD last week and reports that there was no "put fingers on glass" prompt at the GE machine.
Makes sense since there's now a stop at a counter where a human looks at your passport photo and at you. Also the fingerprint scanning has been hugely trouble-prone although not for us.
But usually such developments are reported on FT the first hour they happen, and I can't find another post on it here...
Makes sense since there's now a stop at a counter where a human looks at your passport photo and at you. Also the fingerprint scanning has been hugely trouble-prone although not for us.
But usually such developments are reported on FT the first hour they happen, and I can't find another post on it here...
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May 28, 2014, 11:10 am
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I've always had to scan my fingerprints at ORD, only once had to show my slip/pp to a CBP officer sitting at a folding table on the way out of immigration. Last time was over a month ago, although I can't see them changing that process. How did the machine validate his identity without the fingerprints?
May 28, 2014, 11:17 am
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Well, if they bought modern technology instead of using tech from 2 decades ago, they would do it the same way New Zealand and Australia (& dozens of other countries) do it and read the biometric data from the passport image against the person standing in front of the machine.
But CBP, being a US gubmint agency, has crippled their machines and tech (& thereby reduced public safety and increased the error rate) for both GE and the general entry kiosks they've recently rolled out and doesn't do that.
In the OP's case, I'd say the person didn't use the GE machines because that's simply not how they work. If they didn't take fingerprints then it's odds on favourite they used the general entry kiosks without realizing.
But CBP, being a US gubmint agency, has crippled their machines and tech (& thereby reduced public safety and increased the error rate) for both GE and the general entry kiosks they've recently rolled out and doesn't do that.
In the OP's case, I'd say the person didn't use the GE machines because that's simply not how they work. If they didn't take fingerprints then it's odds on favourite they used the general entry kiosks without realizing.