Your car will soon use surveillance cameras with facial-recognition software to 'allow' you to operate it
It's all being pitched as a matter of safety, security and convenience, but beware the dark side
New digital ID technology is coming to the automotive industry that will soon require you to submit to a face scan in order to operate your own car.
Biometric Update reports that a technology company called Continental has developed an external display and biometric camera to be placed on the outside of vehicles for facial recognition and “liveness detection.”
This will allow a vehicle’s “authorized driver” to open and start the car automatically without keys or even a remote key pod.
Unveiled at the world’s largest tech conference, CES 2024, the so-called Face Authentication Display also includes internal cameras, and is equipped with liveness detection from biometrics provider trinamiX, a subsidiary of BASF.
A press release describes how the vehicle’s interior camera is located behind the driver display console – purportedly an industry first – while the exterior camera for facial authentication and keyless entry is mounted in the vehicle’s B-pillar.
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