It might be possible to fool it.
More important, it's normalizing use of facial recognition in everyday situations. This is a very invasive tech and prime for abuse by increasingly totalitarian governments.
It might be possible to fool it.
More important, it's normalizing use of facial recognition in everyday situations. This is a very invasive tech and prime for abuse by increasingly totalitarian governments.
ICE: unlock your ph...ohh nevermind, it's unlocked using your face.
It is good practice to create a different password for each service. That way, if one service is compromised, your adversary cannot use that password to unlock everything else.
That may sound onerous, but thanks to selfie-login technology, you can instead simply use a different face for each account.
Yeah, thanks but no thanks.
The biggest thing I'll use is fingerprint on my phone, caus its comfy, and quickly disabled should the need arise
Did i just time travel or is this the feature i have been refusing to use on my phone for almost a decade?
Yeah November 2017; 8 years ago
Is this implemented very different technologically speaking?
faceId is completely in device. This is a video that is sent to google to process
Is that really that different?
The article doesn’t go into any length to explain the technology. But assuringly its just an encrypted passcode created with an algorithm using measured face data.
Crafting a secure reliable personal id based on pure visual appearance has been tricky and when this came out i disliked it but it was clearly a feat.
What is the story here?
Google trusting this technology?
Them adding age verification to it?
I am just confused what makes this enough of something to write/post it.
Very different, I would say. The security implication of authorising you on a new device is much more severe than logging you into a device you are already authorised against.
Your phone stores the code on the device and does facial recognition locally. Apps on your phone only receive that data if they explicitly request your camera and perform the recognition themselves.
This is vastly different than sending Google a video of your face that they save on their servers and use to analyze future selfie videos.
But assuringly its just an encrypted passcode created with an algorithm using measured face data.
From the article:
Selfie videos can be used for login purposes, to verify your age for accessing certain account features, and to create an AI avatar.
It's not just an encrypted passcode.
Maybe its "unlocking" stuff on your desktop browser with your phone, like the new captchas where you have to scan a QR and receive a code via SMS (seriously google, what the heck)
So what do we do about my evil twin brother who is a supervillain?
I didn't believe this was a problem until I watched my wife and her twin sister unlocking each others phones (they aren't identical but they do look quite a lot alike)
Time for graphene and protonmail. They should at least take another 15y to enshittify to this point.
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