Singapore in world first for facial verification

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Both facial recognition and facial verification depend on scanning a subject's face, and matching it with an image in an existing database to establish their identity. The key difference is that verification requires the explicit consent of the user, and the user gets something in return, such as access to their phone or their bank's smartphone app. Facial recognition technology, by contrast, might scan the face of everyone in a train station, and alert the authorities if a wanted criminal walks past a...

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