Australia is trying make sure you never have to worry about losing your passport ever again. By 2020, the country hopes to replace those old paper booklets with facial recognition technology.

 

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Digitaltrends writes, “the nation’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection is aiming to do away with the need for passports at its international airports by introducing systems for biometric recognition of the face, iris and/or fingerprints.”

 

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The proposed system will scan your face upon your arrival at the airport and if you have a clean record, you’ll be whisked off to your destination without ever having to interact with a human.

 

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This is great and all, but my Instagram followers are really going to miss my selfies with my passport stamps :(