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by phantom784 946 days ago
The article mentions a "one to many" system which is exactly this - it compares you to every face in the database and decides who you are, eliminating the need to show physical ID.

Unless both twins are flying on the same day, you could solve this by rejecting matches of people who don't hold a boarding pass for that airport.

Or you could just require a physical ID as backup if the system can't return a match (due to identical twins or otherwise).

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> you could just require a physical ID

It's actually not necessary to have an ID to get through TSA, so please don't encourage it.

True - I suppose the "backup" would be either a physical ID or whatever they do to verify your identity when you don't have an ID.