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Taylor Swift used airport-style facial recognition on concertgoers
Taylor Swift used the same type of facial scanning tool on concert attendees that federal law enforcement officers based at airports rely on to verify the identities of international passengers. Swift's team used the software and kiosks to take pictures of every attendee's face at her Rose Bowl concert in Los Angeles in May to learn if a stalker was in attendance.
As the more than 118,000 people entered the venue, a video of Swift rehearsing was playing on a screen next to the ticketing booth. As each person stopped to watch as they passed through, a camera inside the screen took a picture of that person's face. "Everybody who went by would stop and stare at it, and the software would start working," Mike Downing, chief security officer of Oak View Group, told Rolling Stone. Downing attended the concert as a guest of the machines' manufacturer and watched as unknowing attendees were photographed.
That image was then processed by the software and the person's facial biometrics, or unique measurements of their face, were pulled from the picture and sent electronically to the software company's headquarters in Nashville, according to Downing, whose company advises concert venues on security procedures. That data was checked against images of Swift's known stalkers. In April, one of the pop singer's stalkers was found sleeping inside her New York home. In another spring incident, a man arrested outside her Beverly Hills home was found with a knife, rope, and ammunition. It's not clear how Swift used the information gathered by the facial recognition technology.
More than 30 U.S. airports have implemented facial scanning machines to check passengers' identities when boarding or returning from international flights. Customs and Border Protection uses airline manifest information to then pull existing photos from government databases, such as passport and visa images. It creates a photo gallery of the passengers it expects to see depart or return on a flight. At the inspection booth coming back from a flight, the cameras take a live image of the passenger and in less than two seconds match it to the images of people expected to come through. Following that process, passengers speak with CBP officers in an interview and photos are deleted from CBP files. CBP identified 1,300 visa overstayers through the use of this software in 2017.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/taylor-swift-used-airport-style-facial-recognition-on-concertgoers