While I can appreciate your
apprehension, I feel your fears are, as
DB126 puts it, paranoia. It appears you
assume your readers will try to get
away with something or have criminal
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security system. But let’s get real here.
The average user is not going to be a
criminal.
—jshaw

The Supreme Court already ruled that
cops don’t need a court order to unlock
your phone if it is locked using
biometrics.
—Vigilabo_Vigilum

It’s not paranoia if they are trying to
get your face and everything else about
you on a hard drive to be used against
you. And they are.
—Guest

In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “It was
terribly dangerous to let your thoughts
wander when you were in any public
place or within range of a telescreen.
The smallest thing could give you away.
A nervous tic, an unconscious look of
anxiety, a habit of muttering to
yourself—anything that carried with it
the suggestion of abnormality, of
having something to hide. In any case,
to wear an improper expression on
your face...was itself a punishable
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Newspeak: facecrime...”
—SearingTruth

But no one has access to my face as

recorded on my iPhone, and I can’t

stop or even be aware of my face from

being imaged and saved who-knows-

where-and-when. So I guess I’ll just

enjoy the great convenience of Face ID

on my phone and not worry about that

which I can’t control. Incidentally, not

noted in the article is that the Apple

face recognition can be set to always

require the user’s attention, greatly

decreasing the chances of accidental

unlocking. As described in the article,

the Pixel versions of Face ID are

insecurely implemented, meaning I’m

staying with iPhone for the foreseeable

future.

—bobmepp

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