A Japanese journalist checks out the new face and iris-recognition procedures at Dubai airport, United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s airport has introduced an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when leaving the country. — AP
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning.
Now, the key east-west transit hub is rolling out another addition from the realm of science fiction – an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering or leaving the country.
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A Japanese journalist checks out the new face and iris-recognition procedures at Dubai airport, United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s airport has introduced an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when leaving the country. — AP
Face and iris-recognition gates are shown during a media tour at Dubai airport, United Arab Emirates. Dubai airport offers the latest artificial intelligence program amid the surging coronavirus pandemic, with contact-less technology the government promotes as helping to stem the spread of the virus. But the efforts also have renewed questions about mass surveillance in the federation of seven sheikhdoms, which experts believe has among the highest per capita concentrations of surveillance cameras in the world. — AP
Emirati officials take part in a media tour presenting the new face and iris-recognition facilities at Dubai airport, United Arab Emirates. It’s the latest artificial intelligence program the UAE has launched amid the surging coronavirus pandemic, technology the government promotes as helping to stem the spread of the virus. — AP
A man goes through an automated gate after he passed through the face and iris-recognition gate to board a plane, during a media tour at Dubai Airport, in the United Arab Emirates. — AP
A woman enters the face and iris-recognition gate to board a plane, during a media tour at Dubai Airport, in the United Arab Emirates. — AP
