Ontario casinos and slot machines are starting to bring in facial recognition software into all casinos so that they can help gambling addicts stay out of trouble. This new project has been checked by the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner to say that it is safe. Most casinos in Ontario should be putting their first biometric scanner in early 2011. The first slot machines that will have the scanner will be the slot machines at the Woodbine race tracks. The cameras will link with a system and notify and alert the staff of the area that there is someone who as been registered as a gambling addict. The cameras will use biometric scanning to read the persons face, then people that have been registered it will relay the info into a system that matches the files of the pictures then if someone who has been noted as an addict will be flagged. Although many people like the idea of the scanners they don't like a picture of them being taken, OLG has guaranteed that this information will be safe and will not be used for any other purpose. The picture will be taken if it matches it will be kept but if it was not matched it will automatically erase. Even if the data is stolen there is no personal data recorded just biometric figure of your face which is useless.
I believe that this is a great way to help people out, I believe that it will also evolve so that it will not only detect if the person is an addicted gambler i believe that it will soon have an up link with the police to notify if any criminals are in the buildings. Sure many people don't like being "biometric scanned" but it is to help people out not to steal your biometric data and pictures, generally if things are passed by the privacy commissioner it is generally safe and will not invade your privacy, and if you don't like it don't go, an easy alternative to the scanners. I believe that if these scanners are as effective as they said they are that every store, business, house etc. will be installing it is just an easy way to keep you safe. I also believe that this would be a great tool for airports to have, imagine if every time you went into an airport you would be scanned if a threat entered the airport you would be safe. I believe that these biometric scanners provide yet another safety precaution to aid gambling addicts and to make people feel safer.
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