It has been announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be utilizing facial recognition for the sake of expediency, a first for the world renowned event and likely not the last considering the rapid and ever expanding growth of technology.
Recently showcased to journalists, it has been estimated that at least 300,000 individuals enter secure areas that require ID checks, with the facial recognition system seeking to speed up this endeavor – it will be introduced at the event’s 43 venues and other facilities:
According to officials of the committee and those at NEC, the technology will stop attendees from lending each other their ID cards; trial runs demonstrated that the facial recognition was 2.5 times faster than the use of security guards.
The event’s head of security also claimed that they can reduce the amount of security personnel thanks to this technology, a good thing for sure given that the current intense Japan summer has been the cause of numerous deaths…
No real surprise that the “High tech nation” (but somehow forgets centralized heating/cooling) will be showing off a bit in 2020. We got the bullet train last time Japan hosted the Olympics, I wonder what we will see this time.
“forgets centralized heating/cooling”?
cooling is everywhere. heating is everywhere (where temperature drops to a noticeable degree)
won’t work on chinese
This sounds like the beginning of some dystopian Orwellian s♥♥t…
Meh, all it’ll do is increase safety and security efforts. No dystopia here.
They might be claiming that it’s faster than using security personnel, and while people can make mistakes, I’m instantly skeptical regarding how accurate it will be. I had a bit of a chance to play with Hitachi’s production facial recognition system when I worked at a tech company (we were tasked with interfacing it with some existing projects for a demo). It failed at points pretty much every day; obvious stuff, like 2 white guys with the same rough hair colour / beard shape were indistinguishable, similar looking black dudes with dreads, etc. Not sure where JP is sourcing this kit, but with today’s tech, it probably would never work if it weren’t accompanied by physical tickets– even still, I see it causing problems.
Bad choice, it’ll directly impact ticket sales.
Staying at home to watch it at no cost (and no holier than thou surveillance state) is the wiser option.
To be fair, there is nothing of value to watch at the Olympics anyway. Except women’s beach volleyball. But even there, having access to all the cameras from home is far superior…
Face recognition like this is very very evil technology.
Blanket bio metrics like this a tool of wannabe despots as it creates turn key totalitarianism like a pig creates manure.
Nah, faggots like you don’t have money to come here anyway. So it has nothing to do with ticket sales. But it will force all those muslim whores in hijabs to behave or stay in their countries.
Seems I struck a nerve
“Seems I struck a nerve”
Seconded. He’s probably some disgruntled hapa.
“Here”?
Are we going to pretend you ever step foot out of your mother’s basement now?