Posted on 03/01/2024 9:14:51 AM PST by george76
Satisfied with IAM systems after a six-team trial last season, the U.S. National Football League appears ready to go league-wide with biometric ID verification.
The pilot came at the end of 3.5 years of digital IAM testing by the NFL. No sports leagues like to lose money when people get unpaid-for stadium access, but NFL owners are particularly upset by it compared to others.
League owners are expected to set up a centralized facial recognition IAM service based on its Express Access authentication platform in the 2024 season. That would be for all 30 stadiums for the 32 teams, beginning in late summer.
Credentialing systems by computer-vision firm Wicket were part of the tests and are expected to be the core of post-pilot operations.
NFL executives have been talking about credentialing for several months. Every effort to create ID verification in stadiums has failed at the hands of counterfeiters or because the levels of passes were too numerous and complex for the environment.
According to trade journal Venues Now, gate keepers and security personnel have been told to physically feel an IAM device for genuineness.
Wicket facial authentication systems were in play during the Super Bowl this month. While no one is talking about how successful IAM operations were, the only incident being discussed is the man who got on the field during the game with a hashtag markered on his torso.
So, a qualified success for the company. In fact, Wicket has giddily adopted a marketing tone almost connoting membership in the league. It is closer than most companies in a sense, as Wicket’s ownership group includes part-owners of the Cleveland Browns.
The company claims fans accept facial recognition systems for access and proof of age.
Express Access scanned 98,000 tickets, according to the company, although 43 percent of season ticket holders enrolled in the face biometrics service.
Wh don’t they call it the Great IAM. These heathens are really pushing end times prophecy.
That sounds discriminatory to thieves
Tell me this is good how? It’s going to spill over to other segments of society.
Is going to a meaningless game worth having any of your biometric info in any database?
Like fission/fusion and electronic computers, our great scientific discoveries and inventions(deterrent bombs, AI, etc) have a way of being useful, and even necessary, but then eventually corrupted by mankind.
Something Wicket this way comes........................
Why don’t we use that system for voter verification?
What’s an NFL?
N eeling
F elon
L eague
“24/7/365 - All surveillance, all the time.”
My wife, whose computer skills, are reading 1.5 Kindles per day and cleaning out the herds of emails and phone messages to her brought up a great question while we were getting ready for our evening meal and our 2 hours of tv watching.
I turn on our 10 year old Amazon tv to find something Brit to watch or one of the few American Shows like a NCIS rerun to watch.
First I go to Prime and use their section naming me to find something new or a rerun to watch.
She wondered how our old tv knows that I am asking for help re what to watch.
If she asks for music in the afternoon, our tv addresses her.
I have my own kindle section, which I sometimes use in the pm and read/view the kindle on my Chromebook.
My wife has her own speed reading Kindle section and 3 Kindles to read.
An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.
The acrostic of "mark of the beast" - is M o t b, which matches IAM in 3 out of the 4 base Gematria ciphers.
Maybe we're not physically connected yet, but we are all still connected. When agreeing to the terms of service for all the devices and apps we use, it is giving access to pretty much everything we do electronically - to various entities. The technology exists to do this, and has probably been in use for longer than we realize.
In a strictly technical sense, we have been informed and have given permission.
More than a little unsettling.
“In a strictly technical sense, we have been informed and have given permission.”
Last year, I renewed my California Driver’s license and as my wife labeled it, my old retired goat’s ID.
The California DMV had data on me and my wife since the late 1960’s.
Since then, they have added our SS #’s, and a new high tech photo for both licenses and other data just to renew our licenses. Plus, probably the best fingerprints, from an 85 year old.
As you noted, “In a strictly technical sense, we have been informed and have given permission.”
With 20 terabyte hard drives and more for storage. Who needs the cloud? One can get any info one wants...download it...clean out all malware and put it on your personal cloud. One get get cleaned up videos burned to flash sticks or mega DVD’s (16 hdtv video)...download all the classic books, tv shows etc one wants to access for the next 20 years..
So is this to get a cut of the sales of tickets to others who do not have season tickets? Why would they GAS?
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