Apple’s FaceID Could Be a Powerful Tool for Mass Spying

wired.com ^ | 09/14/2017 | Jake Laperruque

[PIF]

Right - that’s what I was getting at - I was thinking that human faces are 3 dimensional, and that a real hologram might work.

[PreciousLiberty]

The iPhone’s facial identity data is stored in a “secure enclave” on the device, inaccessible to regular law enforcement. Nor is it compatible with any other facial recognition software.

This is way down on the list of concerns. It’s much more likely that the government would just use pictures from Facebook to build up a recognition database. People sure post enough of ‘em...

[for-q-clinton]

I’ve had OLED and AMOLED screens for years...I can’t go LCD. Does the iPhone 8 have OLED?

[for-q-clinton]

yep that’s what i meant. thx

[for-q-clinton]

But does it still have the ancient LCD? I’ve been using AMOLED and OLED screens for years. if it has OLED then I’d consider it.

[adorno]

Word of caution...

I have the LG G10, which I bought only May of 2016, not even 1 1/2 year ago. LG is very slow with the Android updates, and I only got the Nougat update last month, or more than a year after it was available to Android users. IOW, LG is one of the very last to do updates. And, LG users hardly ever get to do more than one upgrade to the latest Android version, meaning that I’m going to be out of luck for Android Oreo, which most new releases of Android phones will be getting.

I’m done with LG, and my next phone will be a Samsung or a version of whatever gets branded with the Google name, even though I don’t trust Google. And yeah, the newest Google Pixel will be made by LG, but that Pixel will come with Android Oreo, while the LG phones will have to wait. The V30 will be coming with Oreo, but you might be out of luck when the next Android update comes out in 2018. I won’t be getting Oreo, this year or next, since LG only support their phones for 2 years or less.

[adorno]

Correction:

I have the LG V10. One version before the current available version.

[for-q-clinton]

That's the world of android garbage. I have to pick my poison. I really wish Windows Phone was successful... It was the best of all worlds. Except the apps aren't there 😔

[Swordmaker]

But does it still have the ancient LCD? I’ve been using AMOLED and OLED screens for years. if it has OLED then I’d consider it.

Why worry. Are you going to be staring at a phone screen a lot? I don't. The iPhone's screens are superb for color gamut and reproduction. OLED is nice, but most people unless they are comparing them side-by-side really don't know the difference and most other phones with OLED are not useable in full sun. iPhones are with LEDs are far better in sunlight and the OLED iPhone X is much brighter so it will be usable in sun as well.

But, then, I knew you'd come up with an excuse.

[for-q-clinton]

Yes i do look at the screen a ton. And yes there is a huge difference. Not an excuse, but a reality. Why couldn’t apple update the screens in the 8? All other flagships use some sort of oled.... And it does matter or iPhone X would have kept lcd. Ice had oled and amoled for about 0 years now. I can’t go backwards. It’s the most important thing to me... So much so I’m consider android.

[zeugma]

Each human could have billions of web cams assigned just to them.

Which is a good thing because of how inefficiently the addresses are currently being allocated. Last time I looked at it, many ISPs that have started to convert to IPv6 were assigning huge blocks to individuals. Each residential address was getting the equivalent of the entire IPv4 address space. (or at least an entire class A block). I'd be satisfied with having the IPv4 equivalent of a class C block (256 addresses).