use Face ID. When you make a purchase, you have to look at your phone
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accidentally look at your phone, you might even accidentally hit the
button, but you’re not very likely to do both at once unless you’re
making a payment.
IT’S BAD-HABIT FORMING
In terms of privacy, facial recognition writ large is far scarier than most
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people in which the police are looking for one individual. If the police
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everyone there that something is up.
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person’s face, discreetly positioned cameras, and the software required
to match that photo to a living face. They can now scan the entire room
without people realizing. They can also now track the person moving
around the room, learning far more than whether or not the person is
simply present.
This second example is already happening in some places. Chinese
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person to a face, but Google Photos has demonstrated that it doesn’t
take very much data to match a person to any picture of them—whether
as an elderly person or an infant. US airports are using face scanners on
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promote its camera doorbells and providing a platform for police to
request video from people. The future is now, and it’s dangerous.
Facial recognition has already found its way into that paragon of privacy
(read: with intense sarcasm): Facebook. The company recently admitted
it created, then shelved, a face-scanning app that let users identify
people by pointing a phone at them. The social media platform can
already identify people in images and videos. And the number of places
ready to accept our face data is growing.
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