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Face First: Western Sydney Airport Ushers in Biometric Boarding Revolution

The false positive rate on some systems sits at around 1 percent, which sounds tiny unless you’re that 1 percent.
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Face First: Western Sydney Airport Ushers in Biometric Boarding Revolution
Facial-recognition technology is operated at Argus Soloutions Aug. 11, 2005 in Sydney, Australia. Ian Waldie/Getty Images
Nicole James
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While airline lounges still serve reheated frittata and boarding gates haven’t yet mastered punctuality, the real frontier in Australian air travel is biometric.

Western Sydney’s new airport promises a facial recognition system so slick it could make Hong Kong blush and Singapore reassess.

Nicole James
Nicole James
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Nicole James is a freelance journalist for The Epoch Times based in Australia. She is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, columnist, and editor. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. She holds a BA Communications majoring in journalism and two post graduate degrees, one in creative writing.