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Portugal wants to create ‘facial recognition system’ for State websites

Posted on February 13, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Portugal Resident writes:

The Portuguese government is keen to create a system of facial recognition for mobile access to State websites.

The use of what is called a ‘Chave Móvel Digital’ has already been taken up by about 12% of the population to navigate sites like social security, the SNS health system and the AT tax authority.

But for now access is in the form of a code. The idea is to make it ‘simpler’ and potentially ‘safer’ by adopting ‘facial recognition’.

Read more on Portugal Resident.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

Category: Non-U.S.Surveillance

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