So if someone steals your phone they can access your id? Or use it? Is there a way this is avoided?
> Biometric authentication using Face ID and Touch ID ensures that only the person who added the ID to the device can view or present their ID or license in Wallet.
Cell signals can be triangulated. This "convenience" will be abused. Mark my words.
I also think you misunderstand how biometric models on phones/laptops work.
The decisions these companies make will be unaccountable, probably with the input from an inscrutable AI, and limited only by the terms of service which you click through without reading.
The dystopian consequences of this trend are so concerning, they deserve to be brought up in every thread on this site.
There have already been cases of people having their YouTube and Gmail accounts blocked because of their politics[0] and app stores are notorious for banning apps (and thus businesses) that allow access to legal but politically-unpopular speech[1][2]. You might argue that this censorship is a positive thing, or at least legal, for these platforms to do, but I don't know why you would call my concerns "fake FUD".
I admit I was using the phrase "I don't like your face" as it's a provocative idiom, but this article is about a technology which stores pictures of people's faces, and is activated by a picture of their face, so the real issue is that companies might react negatively to what's behind someone's face — that is, their opinions and beliefs — and lock them out of this facial recognition ecosystem.
[0] https://torontosun.com/2017/08/01/free-speech-advocate-jorda...
[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/google-chrome-web-store-bans-disse...
[2] https://www.insideedition.com/unjected-dating-app-created-fo...
You’ve linked stories about Jordan Peterson, Dissenter, and Unjected as if they prove your point about biometric authentication, so I’m going to stop commenting now.
I prefer not to feed trolls.
same way someone steals your wallet they can access your id or "use it".
For most critical uses, you can do that now, since IDs are electronically verified against a central server. For incidental uses, sure, an unverified physical ID works.
Of course, using a third-party ID storage system on which you have an account increases the threat surface to which that threat applies, since there are more places where compromise can occur with the ability to kill your usable ID that way (your account, the storage system, the ID issuers systems vs. just the first of those.)
Not impossible, probably a good idea, but it would be some level of friction you don't have with a typical ID.
This is addressed in the press release
If you double click the power button without looking at the screen, it’ll request face unlock for the payment card; and after exiting this screen, it still requires another face unlock for the phone itself.