Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks

https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-data-is-a-key-to-your-identity-if-stolen-you-cant-just-change-the-locks-278289

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StopTech@lemmy.today · 66 pts · 112d (5 replies)

This is why biometric verification was always a bad idea

phase@lemmy.8th.world · 17 pts · 112d (3 replies)

Always funny to ask how you change a fingerprint if its leacked.

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 112d

StopTech@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 112d (1 reply)

Leacked? Is that a portmanteau of hacked and leaked?

phase@lemmy.8th.world · 3 pts · 112d

Or a typo, we will never know. :D

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 112d

Makes good usernames.

After presenting biometrics, you should always be prompted for a password

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 112d (1 reply)

Have there been actual studies done against the various facial recognition technologies out there right now to see what the minimal adjustments are to break it, and following that, to successfully and reliably be recognized as a specific other person?

ragas@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 112d

There are human rights organisations that make morphed passes that work for you and some other person.

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 112d (2 replies)

Just change your face if it gets leaked, duh.

zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 111d
yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev · 1 pts · 109d

Well at least some years ago, Apple's face ID stopped working when I got bracers. I'm guessing the models are better now, though