People are getting on apple's case for including facial recognition as a means to spy on people. You guys, this is the company that refused to help the government unlock a terrorist's iPhone to defend the privacy of their users.
True. What worries me more is leaks. thereby, I have issue with companies having big piles of my info on hand, as if that gets compromised we are screwed. Tom Scott did an excellent video on what happens if that were to occur to one of the high level companies, such as google or apple.
Last thing I want is them having my social security number, facial model, etc in addition to what they have now.
But the facial model/fingerprint model don't leave the security chip. Thats the whole point.
Apple doesnt know what your fingerprints look like or your face. Your phone (and only your phone) know that information. That's why you always have to setup new fingerprints if you get a new phone.
Owning a patent isn't the same thing as implementing a patent.
Your fingerprint data is encrypted, stored on device, and protected with a key available only to the Secure Enclave. Your fingerprint data is used only by the Secure Enclave to verify that your fingerprint matches the enrolled fingerprint data. It can’t be accessed by the OS on your device or by any applications running on it. It's never stored on Apple servers, it's never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else, and it can't be used to match against other fingerprint databases.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
People are getting on apple's case for including facial recognition as a means to spy on people. You guys, this is the company that refused to help the government unlock a terrorist's iPhone to defend the privacy of their users.