Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks
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This is why biometric verification was always a bad idea
Always funny to ask how you change a fingerprint if its leacked.
Leacked? Is that a portmanteau of hacked and leaked?
Or a typo, we will never know. :D
Makes good usernames.
After presenting biometrics, you should always be prompted for a password
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?
There are human rights organisations that make morphed passes that work for you and some other person.
Just change your face if it gets leaked, duh.
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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