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Facial recognition technology won’t be installed at the boarding gates of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. This makes the airport the first in the country to resist the rollout of a federal biometric identification program.

After hours of people calling facial recognition technology intrusive and dangerous, the Port of Seattle Commission unanimously approved an interim on some uses of the technology. The Commission, which includes five members, oversees Sea-tac and suspended the introduction of some new forms of biometric technologies including facial recognition scans. This suspension is until the commission adopts ‘tangible, enforceable’ policies to govern the use of these technologies.

Commissioners adopted guiding principles for the public-facing use of biometric technology and set a course to translate those principles into tangible, enforceable policies. They also put the technology implementation on hold until policies are finalized. https://t.co/cxnFXTETHx pic.twitter.com/0GhUjBJStK

— Port of Seattle – ⚓️ (@PortofSeattle) December 12, 2019

The commission’s decision prevents Delta Air Lines’ plans to roll out facial recognition cameras at its Sea-Tac boarding gates by the end of this year. The moratorium applies to the areas under the control of Port.

This means that a Custom and Border Protection plan to establish facial recognition scans at a new facility in order to process international travelers opening July 2020 will go as planned.

According to Eric Scheinfeld, the Port’s federal government liaison, Sea-Tac airport is the first airport in the country to resist some control over the rollout of facial recognition at airports. At the meeting, Commissioner Courtney Gregoire said, ‘The recommendation could be that we don’t think the technology is ready to use right now.’

By late June, the commission will vote on the policy recommendations. Until that time, the pause on the introduction of new biometric technologies is in effect.

Previously, when you used Google Pay for transactions, it would only ask you to enter your PIN. Although it was a reliable measure, there were more loopholes in it. Over the last decade, biometric verification has become remarkably common. This is mainly because of the extra layer of security it provides to our smartphones, bank accounts, etc. By virtue of this additional protection, Google Pay has introduced biometric authentication for more secure transactions.

Starting with version 2.100, Google Pay is adding fingerprints and face authentication for money transfers. Google Pay is a platform for transacting money with your smartphone, without the hassle of a number of cards with every transaction. The reason for the addition of biometric authentication is the lack of proper biometric authentication for money transfer which was a security flaw. Just by providing a simple PIN, you would be able to perform money transactions via Google Pay.

Although Google Pay is launching this feature, it is only available for Android 10 users for now. This is due to the specific biometric API that is only available on Android 10. This feature may soon be coming to Android 9 as well. The biometric option can be accessed through the “Sending Money Settings” section of the app. Users can choose either the option of PIN or biometric authentication, or decide to keep both measures for added security. It is worth noting that the biometric feature is only available for money transactions and for NFC payments in stores, you still have to unlock your phone.

There are several advantages of biometric over the PIN-based security system. PIN numbers can be a bit difficult to remember and easy to crack at times. According to Google’s product manager for authentication, Steven Soneff, “You’re probably hearing advice about making sure that it’s complicated or that there’s a requirement to have certain characters that is just infuriating from a user point of view.”

At a later point in the future, the dark mode on Google Pay will also be functional, which is currently being tested. The specialty of the dark mode will be that Google Pay will automatically switch to the dark mode if the phone battery is low or the phone is on power saver.

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