The Privacy Guarantor imposed the temporary stop to facial recognition equipment located inside Milan-Late Airport for “Faceboarding”. The methods of operation would not be compatible with the European regulations in force
The Privacy Guarantor has imposed the extinguishing of portals of faceboarding installed at Milan-Late Airport. These are equipment designed for the Automatic recognition of the face of passengers through biometric scan, to allow boarding without the need to exhibit your identity document (after online registration with annual renewal). According to the Guarantor, the ways in which this service is offered at the Milanese airport do not comply with the competent European regulationsand a comparison with the Sea Management Company was therefore started for the adaptation to current laws.
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The portals of faceboarding They had previously been installed also at the Rome-Fiumicino airport, but soon they were out of doubts regarding compliance with the discipline for the management of personal data. According to the Guarantor of Privacy, to be not compliant with European regulations would be the Methods of archiving of the biometric data of passengers. The legislation provides that these are recorded or only in the hands of the person for the purposes of authentication, or in ciphered form with a secret key known only to passengers. The guarantor instead reports that the devices of faceboarding of Milan-Late would have “led to the storage of biometric templates in a centralized archive at the airport manager, without guaranteeing the interested party an exclusive control power on their biometric data. “ The portals were temporarily deactivateduntil the measures required by the Guarantor for the adjustment to current regulations are implemented.