{"id":75551,"date":"2021-03-08T23:07:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T23:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=75551"},"modified":"2021-03-08T23:07:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T23:07:29","slug":"at-dubai-airport-travelers-eyes-become-their-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/travel\/at-dubai-airport-travelers-eyes-become-their-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"At Dubai Airport, Travelers\u2019 Eyes Become Their Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n <span>&#169; Photo by Kamran Jebreili \/ Associated Press<\/span><br \/>\n At Dubai Airport, Travelers\u2019 Eyes Become Their Passports<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n Photo by Kamran Jebreili \/ Associated Press Face and iris scanners will start to replace passports at one of the world\u2019s busiest airports in Dubai. <\/p>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static-entertainment-wus-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/sc\/64\/a8a064.gif\" alt=\"Loading...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Load Error<\/p>\n<p>Now, the key east-west transit hub is rolling out another addition from the realm of science fiction: an iris scanner that verifies one\u2019s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering or leaving the country.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest artificial intelligence program the United Arab Emirates has launched amid the surging coronavirus pandemic\u2014contact-less technology the government promotes as helping to stem the spread of the virus. But the\u00a0efforts have also renewed questions about mass surveillance\u00a0in the federation of seven sheikhdoms, which experts believe has among the highest per capita concentrations of surveillance cameras in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Dubai\u2019s airport started offering the program to all passengers last month. On Sunday, travelers stepped up to an iris scanner after checking in, gave it a good look, and breezed through passport control within seconds. Gone were the days of paper tickets or unwieldy phone apps.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, airports across the world have accelerated their use of timesaving facial recognition technology to move passengers to their flights. But Dubai\u2019s iris scan improves on the more commonplace automated gates seen elsewhere, authorities said, connecting the iris data to the country\u2019s facial recognition databases so the passenger needs no identifying documents or boarding pass. The unusual partnership between long-haul carrier Emirates, owned by a Dubai sovereign wealth fund, and the Dubai immigration office integrates the data and carries travelers from check-in to boarding in one fell swoop, they added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future is coming,\u201d said Major General Obaid Mehayer Bin Suroor, deputy director of the General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs. \u201cNow, all the procedures have become \u2018smart,\u2019 around five to six seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But like all facial recognition technology, the program adds to fears of vanishing privacy in the country, which has faced international criticism for\u00a0targeting journalists and human rights activists.<\/p>\n<p>According to Emirates\u2019 biometric privacy statement, the airline links passengers\u2019 faces with other personally identifying data, including passport and flight information, retaining it for \u201cas long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.\u201d The agreement offered few details about how the data will be used and stored, beyond saying that while the company didn\u2019t make copies of passengers\u2019 faces, other personal data \u201ccan be processed in other Emirates\u2019 systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bin Suroor stressed that Dubai\u2019s immigration office \u201ccompletely protects\u201d passengers\u2019 personal data so that \u201cno third party can see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without more information about how data will be used or stored, biometric technology raises the possibility of misuse, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny kind of surveillance technology raises red flags, regardless of what kind of country it\u2019s in,\u201d said Jonathan Frankle, a doctoral student in artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u201cBut in a democratic country, if the surveillance technology is used transparently, at least there\u2019s an opportunity to have a public conversation about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iris scans, requiring people to stare into a camera as though they\u2019re offering a fingerprint, have become more widespread worldwide in recent years as questions have arisen over the accuracy of facial recognition technology. Iris biometrics are considered more reliable than surveillance cameras that scan people\u2019s faces from a distance without their knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns about overzealous surveillance in the UAE, the country\u2019s vast facial recognition network only shows signs of expanding. Last month, Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who also serves as Dubai\u2019s ruler, announced the country would begin trials of new facial recognition technology to cut down on paperwork in \u201csome private sector services,\u201d without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, the skyscrapper-studded city of Dubai has\u00a0advanced an array of technological tools\u00a0to fight the virus in malls and on streets, including disinfectant foggers, thermal cameras, and face scans that check for masks and take temperatures. The programs similarly use cameras that can record and upload people\u2019s data, potentially feeding the information into the city-state\u2019s wider biometric databases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>>>Next: How Vaccine Passports Will Actually Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/at-dubai-airport-travelers-eyes-become-their-passports\/ar-BB1enK9X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#169; Photo by Kamran Jebreili \/ Associated Press At Dubai Airport, Travelers\u2019 Eyes Become Their Passports Photo by Kamran Jebreili<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>At Dubai Airport, Travelers\u2019 Eyes Become Their Passports - My Travel Leader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/travel\/at-dubai-airport-travelers-eyes-become-their-passports\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"At Dubai Airport, Travelers\u2019 Eyes Become Their Passports - My Travel Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#169; 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