Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki Station
April 26th, 2006

The Japan Times reports that an experiment will be conducted later this month at Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki Station.”For an hour or two each day over the course of two to three weeks,one of the station’s ticket gates will be closed to the general public.A newly-developed biometric camera,capable not only of photographing faces,but of analyzing facial data and in essence converting each person’s face into a unique bar code,will be at work,snapping shots of participants in the experiment as they pass back and forth through the gate”.

Your face could soon become just another ‘bar code’

The Japan Times reports that an experiment will be conducted later this month at Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki Station.”For an hour or two each day over the course of two to three weeks,one of the station’s ticket gates will be closed to the general public.A newly-developed biometric camera,capable not only of photographing faces,but of analyzing facial data [...]

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Comments
1 - Didier Lieven

Hi

What about the agreement of people in Japan ?

do you think they will accept this kind of identification ?

Didier, from France.

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