Paper Plane
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My new iPhone keeps pestering me to set up facial recognition. I’m a bit reluctant as I’m not sure about it.
Any thoughts out there?
steve
Any thoughts out there?
steve
Facial recognition?
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Twelvefret
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I use it. On the previous phone I used by thumb print. There are times when the phone does not recognize me, so I put in my pass code.
Johnny Bravo
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Handy if you have crap on your hands and you don't want it on the screen.
The only down side I have personally found is that every time I unlock my phone with my face it insists on Wolf whistling me loudly.
The only down side I have personally found is that every time I unlock my phone with my face it insists on Wolf whistling me loudly.
purerockfury
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not a icrap user... we don't like facial recognition... or our stupid-phone staying on by it "seeing" we're looking at it... we use the finger-print thing which every-so-often has us use our pass-code to unlock it... this started for us moons ago... a friend had gotten a stupid-phone with facial recognition... that he tried... it hardly recognized him & unlocked from another friend's face more often... the ball-busting was great... & not for nothing our fave phone had a side fingerprint reader that unlocked the phone picking it up or pulling it out of our pocket...
& in general we don't use the "selfie" camera & wish it was an option to not have... sick of seeing that black dot in the screen...
& in general we don't use the "selfie" camera & wish it was an option to not have... sick of seeing that black dot in the screen...
Twelvefret
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Watching murder mysteries where the police put the phone in front of the dead victim's face or use their thumb to open the phone is always interesting. It is interesting technology, but not a perfect security measure.I use it Steve for the reasons above. It's v easy and there's times my fingers are so cracked and dry that it won't recognise me. I also set it up on my Dad's phone so that he doesn't have to mess around with the code just look at it.
Like garlic bread, it's the future
DesertIguana
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Technology has come long way, I avoid as much as possible.v. FLOCK Cameras are latest tool to catch Bad People doing Bad Things.
AndThatsARockFact
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I haven’t used a security step of any kind for a number of years.
I’m too impatient these days. I’ve never misplaced a phone, but I do tend to use them until they begin to go wonky, usually about five or six years. I figure it’s almost more of a liability for me now.
Also, extra steps can sometimes prevent me from capturing critically fleeting pictures of our cats.
I’m too impatient these days. I’ve never misplaced a phone, but I do tend to use them until they begin to go wonky, usually about five or six years. I figure it’s almost more of a liability for me now.
Also, extra steps can sometimes prevent me from capturing critically fleeting pictures of our cats.
Sideburns
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It’s also very useful for the tap and go payment feature - instead of entering a code , to authorise, just use your face.
Hmm maybe I just opened a tap and go can of worms
If it makes you feel any better, how it works is that it scans your face and then generates a hash - a lengthy alpha-numeric string - which is stored on your device. For future unlock attempts it scans, generates a hash and compares that hash to the one it has stored. If they match, the phone unlocks.
Those of a tinfoil-hat persuasion will probably still avoid it because reasons, but for the rest of us it works nicely and is more convenient than a fingerprint if your hands are damp or dirty.
Those of a tinfoil-hat persuasion will probably still avoid it because reasons, but for the rest of us it works nicely and is more convenient than a fingerprint if your hands are damp or dirty.
DesertIguana
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Well most people who are shoplifters, and thieve hate any tech designed to catch & lockup.
They would, wouldn't they?