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Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 21 hours ago

Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks

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Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks

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Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 21 hours ago
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You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can’t reset your face when your biometric data is breached.
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    Always funny to ask how you change a fingerprint if its leacked.

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      Leacked? Is that a portmanteau of hacked and leaked?

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        Or a typo, we will never know. :D

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