The Transportation Security Administration unveiled a multistep plan earlier this week to expand facial recognition and biometric use to improve security efficiency and reduce wait times at airport security.

Airlines and airports are investing to deliver secure and easy travel for passengers, with biometric technology a key priority.

Travelers will be able to use facial recognition to check in, drop off checked baggage, board flights and more. 

Research from Goode Intelligence sets out the qualitative and quantitative basis for the return on investment from the use of biometric authentication.

The busiest airport in Florida, Orlando International Airport, is slated to be the first U.S. airport to use biometrics at both the entry and exit for travelers crossing borders. The commitment was announced Thursday, June 21, by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Greater Orlando Aviation Authority.

About 3,000 Swedish people have inserted a microchip into their bodies to make their daily lives easier.

The Met’s system produced 104 alerts, of which only two were later confirmed to be positive matches. The force says it does not consider the inaccurate matches “false positives” because alerts were checked a second time after they occurred.  

Consumers feel more comfortable with fingerprint scanning than with other types of biometric technology, including face, eye, voice and other biometric measurements, according to a survey from the Center for Identity at The University of Texas at Austin.