Ultimately, biometrics have the potential to provide much more seure access to sensitive information than conventional passwords, which can be easily forgotten, lost or hacked.
This is what security looked like during prohibition in the 1920s. But we’ve come a long way since then, and passwords are about as relevant as flapper dresses and flagpole sitting.
In the relentless battle between hackers and businesses trying to protect their proprietary data, it’s become obvious that passwords are inadequate to provide secure identification.
It is possible to provide face authentication solutions that address this vulnerability while maintaining the convenience and fun that face authentication/recognition offers.
TV and movies always seem to show face recognition, fingerprints, retina scans, and other biometrics to be perfectly accurate. In real life, they can be very accurate, but perfection is a funny thing…
Facebook’s initial usage of face recognition did not require user consent for the recognition and tagging to take place, they simply had to be using Facebook itself — and Facebook owned and controlled the resulting data.