Travelers leaving the Vancouver International Airport on board Air Canada can now use their face as identification.
Participation in the new airline program facial recognition The system is voluntary and currently only works for domestic flights.
Travelers who want to use it must download the Air Canada app, upload a photo of their passport, then submit a selfie.
The airline says passengers will still need to use their regular ID to get through airport security, but will now be able to pass through airport checkpoints freely.
“It’s really a point of boarding technology that is there to screen passengers and make sure that they are allowed to board an aircraft at a gate and that’s everything,” said John Gradek, an aviation analyst at McGill University.
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“I would definitely do it, to see what the process looks like and how it works.”
The airline says that once a passenger’s trip is completed, their biometric data will be deleted within 36 hours and will no longer be part of their digital profile.
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