Paper passports will soon be canceled

Created on 26.03.2020 13:20

Multiple experts are confident that the paper IDs should be in the past, and travelers would not have a need to get into a bag for a passport, Travel and Leisure reports. According to IATA data, 45% of passengers are ready to abandon their traditional documents and use a biometric identification technology instead.

Identify a person is already offered by several ways. Identification person options are ranging from scanning fingerprints, palms, eye iris or face to his heartbeat, voice, gait, or how it smells. Currently, airlines and airports give priority to face scans. Each month, more and more biometric identification machines are appeared at airports worldwide, the newspaper reports.

According to SITA, the Swiss information organization, by 2021, 71% of airlines and 77% of airports are planning to launch major research and development programs for biometric identifiers. At the same time, most of them predict that the refusal of passports will be gradual. According to the SITA report, it is schedules to introduce automatic control systems, operating with biometric identification combination and travel documents. In addition, according to experts, by 2021, about 47% of global airports would launch a biometric identification technology at their checkpoints.

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