;^)
Posted on 12/21/2017 3:45:36 PM PST by Rusty0604
Apple has been accused of racism, amid reports that the Face ID authentication technology on its new iPhone X is failing to distinguish between Chinese users.
A man from Shanghai bought his wife the new gadget soon after it was released last month, but she was shocked to discover it could be unlocked by her teenage son.
The man, identified only by his surname Liu, phoned Apple's customer service hotline to report the problem.
"Our son was using it and didn't know the password", he said, according to Shandong TV Station .
He was told it was an isolated case and was due to the fact his wife and son look very similar. However, Apple has reportedly launched an investigation into the Liu family's claims.
This is not the first reported incident of Chinese users being able to unlock each other's iPhone Xs.
Last week, AsiaOne reported that a woman from Nanjing discovered her colleague was able to unlock her phone using Face ID.
When Madam Yan first called Apple's hotline to complain about the problem, the customer service representative told her it was "impossible".
However, when pair took the phone to the store to prove what had happened, they found they could unlock all the phones in the store.
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Definitive proof.
In all fairness, they do all look alike. /h
Thank you! That was too funny!
On the other hand, China is tracking a lot of its own folks with facial recognition.
Maybe they can’t tell them apart either, and everyone is just guilty of something (like just thinking).
I think they’re all guilty of something.
Winner winner chicken dinner! LOL
“Find a way to place a fingerprint sensor under the display and get rid of that ugly notch at the top and I’ll buy one.”
When they have an app that will turn wet garbage into gold, then I’ll buy an Apple product.
I just went and watched that on YouTube (never had seen it before). Hilarious!!
and everyone is just guilty of something (like just thinking).
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Its a communist, aka socialist country, so it goes without saying that everyone is guilty of something and therefore guilty until proven innocent by law.
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