{"id":32774,"date":"2018-10-29T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32774"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:54:15","slug":"use-your-face-to-zip-through-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/use-your-face-to-zip-through-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Use your face to zip through airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/use-your-face-to-zip-through-airports\/article25126055.ece\">Use your face to zip through airports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The government is set to introduce the \u201cDigi Yatra\u201d facility to ease passenger travel by one-time verification at an airport.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important News: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The \u201cDigi Yatra\u201d facility, which is voluntary, would require passengers to initially register themselves at a web portal by providing an identity proof.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>3.The individual\u2019s facial identity would then\u00a0 be captured and mapped onto a newly created \u201cDigi Yatra\u201d profile and a distinct identification number would be generated after one-time verification at an airport.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Passengers would then have to provide this identification number at the time of purchasing an air ticket, to avail the paperless access facility.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201cDigi Yatra\u201d programme would comply with the European Union\u2019s Data Protection Regulation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance of the initiative:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The biometric-enabled digital processing of passengers, would enable travellers to enter the airport building by scanning a QR code on their mobile phones, after undergoing facial recognition.<\/li>\n<li>Once inside the airport, a passenger would be able to self check-in, drop baggage, pass through e-gates to access security and embarkation areas with just a facial scan, thus obviating the need to produce a boarding pass at every step.<\/li>\n<li>However, travellers would still have to undergo mandatory security checks including frisking.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26408\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/face.jpg?resize=596%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/face.jpg?w=596&amp;ssl=1 596w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/face.jpg?resize=150%2C63&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/face.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use your face to zip through airports News: The government is set to introduce the \u201cDigi Yatra\u201d facility to ease passenger travel by one-time verification at an airport. Important News: The \u201cDigi Yatra\u201d facility, which is voluntary, would require passengers to initially register themselves at a web portal by providing an identity proof. 3.The individual\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/use-your-face-to-zip-through-airports\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use your face to zip through airports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704712935},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}