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On the bottom of the page, there's an absolutely galaxy brain take that made me twitch: “A world that uses facial recognition does not look like Hollywood’s Mi
by hlieberman 6y ago
On the bottom of the page, there's an absolutely galaxy brain take that made me twitch:
“A world that uses facial recognition does not look like Hollywood’s Minority Report. It looks like a smarter, more pleasant experience interacting with complex computer security systems to help make a safer world for our friends, our families and our children.” Marios Savvides, director of CyLab’s Biometrics Center
- refulgentis 6y agoI believe his point is comments like this are reductive, and more an indicator of pop culture familiarity than anything substantive about protecting user's privacy. minority report's facial recognition involved swarms of fist-sized flying insect robots invading apartments, and facial recognition on my iPhone allows me to secure my data from the state
- soulofmischief 6y agoI walked into a shop once and was casually told the camera system routed to a central database shared with federal intelligence who uses facial recognition to match against terrorist and most-wanted databases. I thought that was a little concerning.
- Aeolun 6y agoWhy? Are you a terrorist or in a most-wanted database?
- soulofmischief 6y agoFor the last four years my country has had an extremely hostile leader that should dispel all confusion about how easy it is to become ideologically opposed and thus persecuted by your government over a short period of time simply for being a supporter of basic human rights.
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- Thorrez 6y ago>facial recognition on my iPhone allows me to secure my data from the state You mean the police won't be able to get your data? Can't they just hold your iPhone up to your face and then get your data?
- refulgentis 6y agoBest feature ever: https://www.macworld.com/article/3236793/how-to-quickly-and-discreetly-disable-face-id-on-the-iphone-x.html#:~:text=Temporarily%20disable%20Face%20ID,ID%2C%20or%20trigger%20Emergency%20SOS https://www.macworld.com/article/3236793/how-to-quickly-and-....
- Thorrez 6y agoCouldn't you have the same security without face unlock at all? Just keep the phone completely unsecured until you're about to be arrested, then activate the password.
- refulgentis 6y agoNot sure what you're driving at here, could you explain? To put it more simply on my end: iPhones use biometric authentication to secure your data, and the eye-scanning swarm of spider robots are from a 20 year old fictional movie.
- Thorrez 6y agoYou said face unlock provides security against "the state". But biometric authentication doesn't provide protection against the state, because the state can legally and physically force you to biometrically authenticate to your phone. Then you said you can protect against this by activating a password. But that's not biometrics, that's a password. The biometrics aren't helping, the only thing providing security against the state is the password.
- refulgentis 6y ago