Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.
Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.
Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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in reply to along_the_road • • •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.
thanksforallthefish
in reply to along_the_road • • •What could possibly go wrong ?
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in reply to along_the_road • • •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
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webghost0101
in reply to along_the_road • • •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?
facial recognition system developed by Apple Inc.
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webghost0101
in reply to smeg • • •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.
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Ooops
in reply to webghost0101 • • •Conceptionally yes. You can refuse to unlock your phone with your face. You cannot refuse to allow Google to access your account (and thus your phone, too) with a picture of your face -no matter how bad the tech is- if Google implements this.
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in reply to webghost0101 • • •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.
From the article:
It's not just an encrypted passcode.
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nebirus
in reply to along_the_road • • •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.
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GrindingGears
in reply to along_the_road • • •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)
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