Survey: 89% of Citizens Willing to Share Biometrics for International Travel
Biometrics can play a significant role in facilitating faster and more secure travel while protecting borders, according to survey respondents from Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, and 89 percent of the citizens surveyed say they are willing share their biometric details when traveling across international borders. However, 69 percent of the 3,000 respondents say they have not shared any biometric data to date.
According to an Accenture survey, 62 percent of those respondents are willing to share biometrics to make their country more secure, speed up customs and border control processing (58 percent) and make travel more convenient (56 percent).