Idemia, which runs the face scanning system at Newark Airport and others, to be acquired for 1.2 billion euros.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/amadeus-buy-french-biometrics-firm-idemia-12-billion-euros-2026-04-29/

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u/DataDrifter_01 • 2 days ago

Another day, another private company consolidating control over public infrastructure biometric data. What could possibly go wrong? Just selling our faces for 1.2 billion euros.

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u/code_monkey_x • 2 days ago

That's a bit reductive. It's about the tech and algorithms, not "selling our faces" directly. Still, consolidation of biometric services is unsettling regardless.

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u/mango_storm • 2 days ago

1.2 billion euros? For Newark's system? They should be paying *us* to use that airport.

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