Will a new border deal with the US open a backdoor into Kiwis’ personal data?
Getty Images Anyone who has recently travelled to the United States will be familiar with biometric checks – facial and fingerprint scans – used at the border. It is the same technology platform that is used in airports elsewhere in the world. New Zealand s passports, for instance, are among those that now carry encrypted biometric information, matched to a traveller s face as they pass through border smart gates. Because the data is used for a specific purpose and remains tightly controlled by
Getty Images Anyone who has recently travelled to the United States will be familiar with biometric checks – facial and fingerprint scans – used at the border. It is the same technology platform that is used in airports elsewhere in the world. New Zealand s passports, for instance, are among those that now carry encrypted biometric information, matched to a traveller s face as they pass through border smart gates. Because the data is used for a specific purpose and remains tightly controlled by
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