Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
5G + Biometric Facial/Hand Scanning + Digital/Cashless Transactions + Mark of Approval/Authorization = Tomorrow’s Economy (2020)
Biometric scanning used for migrant/border control, secure identity verification and approval, government benefits, domestic and international travel security, economic inclusion of everyone, buying/selling transactions and fund transfers, instantaneous speed of transaction and convenience, VAT/taxation collection, mobility, social credit score and ranking, population movement and tracking, monitoring political and religious ‘extremism’ (terrorists). ‘Mark, number or name’ for verification and approval.
Working towards the mandatory ‘Mark, Number of Name’ in order to buy or sell; Airport biometrics experts discuss facial recognition and touchless processes in air travel
Jul 29, 2020 | Chris Burt Biometric Update
The role of biometric facial recognition in the near and longer-term future of the aviation industry has been discussed recently by experts from Securiport, Amadeus, IATA and Innovatrics. Implementations and changes to biometric systems continue to roll out as well, as the industry attempts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to biometrics for low-stress, touchless and secure air travel processes, Securiport Chief Software Architect Nate Carpenter tells Future Travel Experience in an interview about the Epidemic Control System the company began developing in response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
Securiport had operations in several affected West African countries, and developed a way to allow governments to share information about where travelers had been with health ministries to facilitate contact tracing. This also requires a way to keep data separate and meet data protection and privacy requirements, Carpenter points out. The company also provided mobile infrared cameras to help detect travelers at risk.
Carpenter says by using advance passenger information, questionnaires about health status, and fever checks, Securiport could find people who pose health risks to others before they board an aircraft.
The big disruption to the industry is not actually a change caused by the pandemic, according to Carpenter, but rather an acceleration of the turn to biometrics-driven processes already underway. If technology providers and other stakeholders embrace “a new openness,” he says, the major changes can be completed in a year or two.
In the longer term, the aviation industry needs to use technology like AI and biometrics to lower the stress caused by travelling, Stefan Ropers, president of Amadeus’ Strategic Growth Business writes for Travel Weekly.
In the early stages of flight resumption, new hygiene protocols and touchless technologies are being implemented. Ropers says the deployment of biometrics to simplify passenger identification and speed up processes, along with other new tools, had already begun, but will need to accelerate to reassure both traveling customers and aviation employees.
Citing the strong desire for less waiting observed in the 2019 Global Passenger Survey, International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director – Passenger Pierre Charbonneau sets out the organization’s vision for seamless airport experiences that reduce or eliminate waiting for International Airport Review.
The New Experience Travel Technologies (NEXTT) initiative, which IATA is working on with Airports Council International (ACI), includes a dozen different projects for seamless experiences for travelers during the on-ground portions of their journeys. In addition to the paperless, biometrics-based One ID, there are ONE Order booking, smart security, baggage tracking, and several other projects. Charbonneau says collaboration is the key to their success.
Innovatrics Director of Sales Bill Dumont identifies air travel, finance, and the public sector as three industries that will particularly benefit from biometrics as society struggles with COVID-19 in a BetaNews editorial.
Facial biometrics, e-boarding passes and related smartphone apps, and projects like One ID, can not only prevent or reduce the spread of the virus in airports, it can also potentially be used in contact tracing.
Vision-Box’s report ‘The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Aviation Sector’ likewise shows that while just under a quarter of aviation organizations currently use facial recognition, well over half plan to do so in the future.
Biometrics implementation and system changes
Florianópolis airport in Brazil is planning to launch biometric facial verification for touchless boarding, ND Mais reports.
The project is expected to reach testing in September after years of development by the Ministry of Infrastructure through the National Civil Aviation Secretariat and federal data processing partner Serpro. If successful, the program will expand to other airports in 2022.
Both security and boarding pass checks will be replaced by biometric comparison with a selfie on check-in, which can be done from home. Serpro will also check biographical and other details against government databases.
A pilot of the FRANKD COVID-19 testing system backed by Yoti’s biometric digital ID is expected to begin at a UK airport in early August after being delayed, Yoti CEO Robin Tombs announced on LinkedIn.
Tombs says the technology provides an alternative to harsh quarantine measures, with low-cost, accurate results delivered in 30 to 60 minutes. The GeneMe team, which provides the testing element, is now working to increase capacity.
Government agencies in the UK, U.S. and other countries are looking into the technology, according to Tombs.
Meanwhile Clear has changed its default biometric identity verification modality to contactless iris recognition, in order to help minimize shared touchpoints, the company announced on LinkedIn.
As reported among the most recent biometrics news from Africa, Botswana has selected Pangea to provide an eVisa solution as the country seeks to digitise its services and make arrival at airports and land borders seamless.
In His Service,
Night Watchman
Paul Rolland
Night Watchman Ministries
Make Your Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!
Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:
The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)
A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.
. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).
B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.
. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).
. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).
. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).
. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).
. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).
. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).
. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).
. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).
. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).
True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:
Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.