First it was fingerprints. Now it’s facial recognition to unlock your phone with the iPhone X.
I’d like to come forward as the first to predict that a future incarnation of the iPhone will require a DNA sample to unlock it. Is there any invasion of privacy that we won’t accept in the name of convenience?
/grumble
/getthehelloffmylawn
I predict they will be implanted in our bodies.
You do realize using fingerprints and facial recognition are completely optional ways to unlock the phone on the user’s part, don’t you? You can still use traditional means such as a PIN or pattern, or not lock your phone at all if you don’t want to.
I’m aware. It’s also perfectly reasonable to assume most people won’t go to the trouble of doing so. Most won’t even know they can, care, or have the basic technical skills to change it. 99% of users will just go with whatever the default setting is on the latest auto-updated version of the OS.
The default is no unlocking code. On most phones you have to choose an unlocking method. Fingerprint scanning and facial recognition are not forced on the user. He has to actively select one of those methods and go through the process of setting it up.
It’s not an *invasion *of privacy, it’s to *protect *your privacy. You are betting that you are better off letting Apple have your biometrics than letting some random person who stole your phone have access to whatever is on your phone.
And it’s not an invasion if you willingly hand it over.
I would have expected iPhones would prompt you to set an unlock code (or record your print) upon first use. But then I’m an Android user so I know nothing about iPhones’ first-run routine. On an Android phone you go through a 5-10 minute rigamarole where you enter your Google account or create one, choose settings, etc.
It’s interesting though that despite it not being default, 89% of iPhone users employ fingerprint unlock:
And apparently 52% of Android users:
[URL=“Average iPhone user unlocks device 80 times per day, 89% use Touch ID, Apple says | AppleInsider”]
Pretty crappy bet. Congress recently voted to allow ISPs to sell your information without permission:
Anything not covered by this and similarly shitty measures can be easily allowed by weasel-words in EULA terms. Any information you willingly provide to anyone you should absolutely expect to either be shared, sold, or stolen by lots of other corporations and governmental agencies, and used for whatever purpose suits them.
yes theres a tin foil hat brigade that goes nuts because the evil corporate overlords are keeping records of peoples faces and fingers for the takeover …of course these are the same lunatics that put 200 key passwords on their stuff…
I find it interesting that you don’t own an iPhone and admit not knowing how they work, but felt like you had to start a thread complaining how fingerprint scanning and facial recognition are used by Apple to steal your data. It sounds like recreational outrage at best.
iPhone for example because it’s the trend-setter and the biggest Name. Obviously as stated above fingerprint recognition is becoming common on various Android models as well, and facial recognition as well.
AND you use a Google device signed into your Google account.
'Cause Google knows NOTHING about you. :rolleyes:
A lot of them already are. Right along with the head of the user.
Oh, this isn’t an Apple rant by any means. Google is just as bad, if not worse, in terms of privacy. But only because their user base is so much bigger.
IPhone X unlocks with a big chunk from your wallet.
Just so you know, the biometric data is not passed on to Apple in any way. The iPhone uses what is called a secure enclave which is a highly secure and highly isolated chip on the iOS device itself. There’s plenty of valid things in the world of technological privacy to be concerned about. This isn’t one of them. About Touch ID advanced security technology - Apple Support
You’re concerned about a three and a half year old needle-in-a-hatstack diagnostic hole that was closed soon after?
You’re also concerned about a company handing over data when presented with valid, legal requests from law enforcement?
The same court called the order “unenforceable” and the DOJ eventually asked for the order to be vacated.
So for the last ten years or so, people have been complaining about loss of privacy due to google, Apple, Microsoft, facebook or whomever. What I haven’t heard about, however, is how anybody so far has experienced any negative consequences because of that. There’s been lots of coulds and mights, lots of reasons why the principle of the thing is bad, but I haven’t seen many widespread practical consequences (doubtlessly, there have been some, but everything’s a tradeoff, and lots of things have become far more convenient). Has anyone’s quality of life actually suffered?
None of those links refer to the biometric data being transmitted or compromised in any way. Again, there are genuine privacy concerns when it comes to current technologies, this is not one.