Thai airports to test facial recognition technology

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Airports to test facial recognition technology

By The Nation

 

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Deputy Transport Minister Pairin Chuchotethavorn has instructed the Airports Department to test facial recognition technology at the department's airports.
 

Pairin said the technology, which is being used in other countries, would speed up the check-in and boarding process at airports as passengers would not have to produce their ID card.

 

The technology should be tested at the department's airports first, Pairin added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30356677

 

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[DLock]

Whats to test?

 

I just came back from Australia. It works just fine.

 

Just install it.

[Stoker58]

“.....would speed up the check-in and boarding process at airports as passengers would not have to produce their ID card.“

 First off, when did anything ever speed up the process of getting through an airport? You’ll have to stand staring at a camera which will just add more time.

  Second, you only have to look at how China is using this technology to see where this is leading.

[stanleycoin]

What could ever go wrong with this idea. 

Oops, thought that was the uk they were on about 

 

[Phuketshrew]

Not sure how it's going to work with the millions of Chinese though. They all look the same to me ... ????

[Darcula]

Facial technology was tested long time ago at the barber shop in Don Muang airport.

 

I might even recognise some of them if I see them again.

 

 

 

[bluesofa]

Just now, Darcula said:

Facial technology was tested long time ago at the barber shop in Don Muang airport.

Cheers, that was just superb!

edit: There's a face I've not come across before.

 

 

[Eligius]

Brave New World and Big Brother rolled into one - and the Powers that Be just love it.

 

People are being herded and treated like so much cattle - and most of them cannot even notice that they are being enslaved: more and more unwarrantable intrusion into our lives, more and more surveillance (which provably does NOT stop crime), more and more loss of liberty and privacy.

 

The younger generation do not even realise that the world need NOT be like this - and indeed, that it was not like this. But tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe - into technological fascism (combined with its political twin).

 

I for one will NEVER be happy with any of it.

[Oziex1]

 

1 hour ago, Phuketshrew said:

Not sure how it's going to work with the millions of Chinese though. They all look the same to me ... ????

My first thought, you beat me to it.????

[Oziex1]

50 minutes ago, Eligius said:

Brave New World and Big Brother rolled into one - and the Powers that Be just love it.

 

People are being herded and treated like so much cattle - and most of them cannot even notice that they are being enslaved: more and more unwarrantable intrusion into our lives, more and more surveillance (which provably does NOT stop crime), more and more loss of liberty and privacy.

 

The younger generation do not even realise that the world need NOT be like this - and indeed, that it was not like this. But tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe - into technological fascism (combined with its political twin).

 

I for one will NEVER be happy with any of it.

Taking notice of who is coming and going across borders is pretty important information, however whether the thais will correlate this info in any useful way is another story.

[JimmyJ]

1 hour ago, Eligius said:

Brave New World and Big Brother rolled into one - and the Powers that Be just love it.

 

People are being herded and treated like so much cattle - and most of them cannot even notice that they are being enslaved: more and more unwarrantable intrusion into our lives, more and more surveillance (which provably does NOT stop crime), more and more loss of liberty and privacy.

 

The younger generation do not even realise that the world need NOT be like this - and indeed, that it was not like this. But tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe - into technological fascism (combined with its political twin).

 

I for one will NEVER be happy with any of it.

 

+1

[Lupatria]

To avoid cost for expensive hardware and maintenance the test run with the traditional Thai method was a huge success:

[DLock]

3 hours ago, Eligius said:

Brave New World and Big Brother rolled into one - and the Powers that Be just love it.

 

People are being herded and treated like so much cattle - and most of them cannot even notice that they are being enslaved: more and more unwarrantable intrusion into our lives, more and more surveillance (which provably does NOT stop crime), more and more loss of liberty and privacy.

 

The younger generation do not even realise that the world need NOT be like this - and indeed, that it was not like this. But tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe - into technological fascism (combined with its political twin).

 

I for one will NEVER be happy with any of it.

It's meant to speed up immigration.

 

How does it provide "more and more unwarrantable intrusion into our lives, more and more surveillance (which provably does NOT stop crime), more and more loss of liberty and privacy."

 

is there something?

[JimmyJ]

 

"I’m an Amazon Employee. My Company Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police.

Amazon’s ‘Rekognition’ program shouldn’t be used as a tool for mass surveillance"

 

https://medium.com/s/story/im-an-amazon-employee-my-company-shouldn-t-sell-facial-recognition-tech-to-police-36b5fde934ac

 

 

"Why Privacy is important even though you have nothing to hide"

https://medium.com/meet-lima/why-privacy-is-important-even-though-you-have-nothing-to-hide-ee93c27ab26f

 

[Thian]

7 hours ago, stanleycoin said:

What could ever go wrong with this idea. 

Oops, thought that was the uk they were on about 

 

I've seen them refusing to take it off at the immigration and they could pass like that. I forgot where on which airport it was.

[atyclb]

7 hours ago, stanleycoin said:

What could ever go wrong with this idea. 

Oops, thought that was the uk they were on about 

 

 

 

reminds me of the little saudi boy separated and lost from his mother at a large shopping mall. when security tried to help locate his mother they ask him "what does your mom look like?  the boy answers, "i dont know, i never saw her"

[JimmyJ]

"Deputy Transport Minister Pairin Chuchotethavorn has instructed the Airports Department to test facial recognition technology at the department's airports."

 

"The technology should be tested at the department's airports first, Pairin added."

 

What is meant by "the department's airports" as opposed to "the airports" (i.e., all/any of the country's airports)?

[Alanmel]

Works great in Oz, on the way to immigration you scan your passport,  get a ticket, go to the gate insert the ticket look at the camera and away you go. But that only works for ozzies/kiwis and e-visas. So once they have e-visa's it should be fine.

[Peterw42]

13 minutes ago, Alanmel said:

Works great in Oz, on the way to immigration you scan your passport,  get a ticket, go to the gate insert the ticket look at the camera and away you go. But that only works for ozzies/kiwis and e-visas. So once they have e-visa's it should be fine.

Are they doing full facial regcognition or just taking your photo

[Basil B]

Do not think it will work on the Chinese as they all look the same...

[Peterw42]

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[Peterw42]

52 minutes ago, Alanmel said:

Works great in Oz, on the way to immigration you scan your passport,  get a ticket, go to the gate insert the ticket look at the camera and away you go. But that only works for ozzies/kiwis and e-visas. So once they have e-visa's it should be fine.

I dont see the Australian system as great, first you queue for a scanning machine, then you queue for the camera gate. Not sure why you cant just scan passport and photo at one gate. Last trip with thai wife, she was through the manual system with her Thai passport before I was through the epassport system. 

[nong38]

It does just fine but you do wonder whatever happened to the free world don't you? Today with all the gadgets we have there are upsides and downsides, you can run but you cannot hide, even now they take your picture and stamp your passport so this just another avenue to go down leading to the same place its 1984 running a bit late but there is nothing we can do about it, just be careful.

[TPUBON]

10 hours ago, Eligius said:

Brave New World and Big Brother rolled into one - and the Powers that Be just love it.

 

People are being herded and treated like so much cattle - and most of them cannot even notice that they are being enslaved: more and more unwarrantable intrusion into our lives, more and more surveillance (which provably does NOT stop crime), more and more loss of liberty and privacy.

 

The younger generation do not even realise that the world need NOT be like this - and indeed, that it was not like this. But tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe - into technological fascism (combined with its political twin).

 

I for one will NEVER be happy with any of it.

Totally agree with you. The younger generation will never know what it used to be like. The terrorist have won. 

[tifino]

 

mrs's impending plastic surgery trip might wreak havoc on the return past the lens ????????‍♂️

[CGW]

2 hours ago, TPUBON said:

The terrorist have won. 

As every "major" terrorist group started off or was strongly supported by "western governments", who has won? maybe it was planned this way ????

Or am I "thinking too much" ???? 

Nobody would have agreed to the huge invasion into our private lives without the threat of the "terrorists"

They got us under watch now, no going back! ????

[balo]

You'll get a full facial massage at the same time . But no happy ending. 

 

[StayinThailand2much]

14 hours ago, DLock said:

Whats to test?

 

I just came back from Australia. It works just fine.

 

Just install it.

They have to test, whether local officers will be able to run it.

[StayinThailand2much]

4 hours ago, nong38 said:

It does just fine but you do wonder whatever happened to the free world don't you?

Went down the drain after 9/11.

[JimmyJ]

3 hours ago, TPUBON said:

Totally agree with you. The younger generation will never know what it used to be like. The terrorist have won. 

 

The "terrorists" were an excuse for the governments to do what they always wanted to do - try to gain total control over the populace to protect the fortunes of the 1%.

 

There used to be constraints in "democratic" countries but in the 21st century there's been a rapid erosion of those contraints.