Seattle Seahawks, Mariners and Sounders fans can now use their fingerprints to verify their age and purchase beer and other concessions at home games.
Clear, a biometric verification company that uses fingerprints (and potentially one day facial recognition and iris scans) to check people via fast lanes into airports, akin to TSA Preu2713, has enabled contactless biometric concession purchases for the first time at a sports stadium in the U.S.
At the Mariners’ Safeco field, Clear has partnered with the venue’s concession provider Centerplate to bring this feature to two point of sale systems with special Clear lines in sections 136 and 185.