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> It knows my biometric information; it knows the very contours of my face. I was under the impression that Face ID does not leak such information to whatever
by foozed 7y ago
> It knows my biometric information; it knows the very contours of my face.
I was under the impression that Face ID does not leak such information to whatever app is using it?
- _ropu 7y agoNo, FaceID doesn't leak informations about your face. Just like TouchID doesn't leak your fingerprint.
- NotPaidToPost 7y agoThis has nothing to do with FaceID, which isn't mentioned in the article. WeChat has its own face recognition system.
- foozed 7y agoAh ok, i thought the author meant FaceID in the passage: > I have my WeChat linked with the facial recognition scanner on my iPhone was not aware that WeChat has its own system. They don't get to use the "special" FaceID sensors/scanners though right? Just the camera?
- _ui4r 7y agoIt looks like depth data can be accessed through the AVFoundation framework provided by Apple. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/cameras_and_media_capture/streaming_depth_data_from_the_truedepth_camera https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/camer...
- rcao 7y agoNo, WeChat and Alipay do use FaceID to do payment verification on iPhone.
- NotPaidToPost 7y agoMaybe they do but at least WeChat have their own face recognition technology, in which case they do hold people's biometric data. This is not that big a deal in China considering that people have photo ID card, which means that the government already had everyone's biometric data.