Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has lauded a new facial scanning system to be installed in all 27 Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation casinos, hailing it as "the most privacy-protected system using biometric encryption in the world," reports the Toronto Star. The system aims to help self-professed problem gamblers stay out of casinos. Beginning in May, those entering an Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation casino will have their faces digitally scanned and their identities cross-checked with a database of people who have voluntarily banned themselves from casinos, the report states. The developers of the system's privacy component--University of Toronto biometric engineers--say their methods ensure no permanent link between a biometric template of a person's face and that person's private information.
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