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Originally Posted by alien
They actually contradict themselves on a couple of pages:
While SmartGate cannot determine someone's identity, it can verify that a person presenting a passport is the owner of that passport, to a high degree of certainty
http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=4421
with this
what is smartgate?
SmartGate is a secure and simple system that verifies a person's identity, using face- recognition technology. Used at the Customs control point in an Australian international airport, SmartGate compares a traveller's face with their stored image when they present their passport. If there is a successful match, immigration and customs checks are made by computer to ensure that the border crossing is legitimate.
http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=4243 |
Not really a contradiction - there's a subtle distinction between "verify" and "determine".
Verify: Scan the person's face, compare it with the image in the database corresponding to the presented passport number, and tell the authorities if they match.
Determine: Scan the person's face, check the database (or the Big Brother database), and tell the authorities who this person is.