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Your face is becoming your password, and you can’t change your face.

Facial recognition systems turn your identity into a permanent digital key. If that data is breached, it’s not just another hack — it’s a lifelong vulnerability that can track you, expose you and be nearly impossible to undo.
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Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks

You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can’t reset your face when your biometric data is breached.
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filobus
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filobus
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and your face can be easily extorted from you by force and by law, so your data can be taken by those using force or by government (often they are the same)
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When I go to walmart to buy potting soil, it's stored out in the lot. I don't throw it in a cart and haul it inside the store, I snap a photograph of the UPC code and take that register. I scan a photograph of the code. Works fine.

And this is the problem with biometrics. They may uniquely identify you, but being public, they allow anyone to uniquely identify you, for any purpose outside of your consent.

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For security reasons, you should change your face and fingerprints every 30 days, just like your birth date, gender, and SSN.
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