River Plate x Veridas (FaceID)
Eighty-five thousand fans enter the stadium by looking at a camera.
River Plate installed 300 Veridas facial recognition terminals at the Más Monumental, the largest biometric stadium access deployment in the world by capacity. Fans register from their phone with a selfie and ID document in under ten seconds; on matchday the system recognises them in under a second, with no physical or digital ticket. Announced December 2024, full deployment from February 2025.
Por qué importa
This is the largest case in the entire Observatory by sheer number of people processed by a single biometric system. The speed of adoption, from zero to 85,000 registered faces in two months, says more about fans' willingness to trade biometric data for convenience than about the technology itself. Neither the club nor Veridas has publicly addressed where this data is stored or for how long, an omission that carries more weight at this scale than in a deployment covering a few thousand users.
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