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The Paper Passport Is Dying


Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.

Earlier this year, border officials in Finland held a small-scale trial of a DTC on 22 airline routes, using a mobile app that had been developed. Adam Tsao, vice president of digital identity at security firm Entrust, says that people using any systems will want to know that their data is being used the way they expect it to be. In India, the Digi Yatra face-recognition boarding system has faced multiple criticisms about how it has been introduced and how people have been signed up for the voluntary scheme, as Biometric Updatehasreported.

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