Apps using face recognition cause some privacy concerns.
The iPhone X’s front sensors scan 30,000 points to make a 3D model of users’ faces and then shares the faces’ maps with lots of apps.
However, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said “We take privacy and security very seriously. This commitment is reflected in the strong protections we have built around Face ID data—protecting it with the Secure Enclave in iPhone X—as well as many other technical safeguards we have built into iOS.” Source: Washington Post, October 22, 2017.
See also Privacy is under threat from the facial recognition revolution on The Financial Times, October 3, 2017 (here), noting that face recognition is already very common around the world (for example Alibaba, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, allows placing an order “with a smile”).
Why is facial recognition dangerous under privacy perspective? Facial recognition software is data, which is collected and stored often without consent (or even awareness) of the users. The information can be hacked, of course. What is the problem? That, unlike a password or financial information, information about your face cannot be changed. See more here: How facial recognition software works.
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), effective May 25, 2018, data from facia recognition is specially protected as “biometric data”. See, Jorden Bailey, Using biometric data? Sensitive under the GDPR!
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