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The biggest promoter of face recognition tech right now is Apple. The created the trend and made the sensors cheap. They should be campaigning to them first.

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Ah yes, not like the city of London or countless cities in China that have cameras and facial recognition tech scanning your every move.

and everyone hates them. But everybody "loves" face unlock because marketing says so. Corporates can push major behavioral changes

Apple used 3D based face recognition that only works when your face is right in front of the iPhone. We are a ways away from distance 3D face recognition, and given the advances with deep learning and bigger data sets in 2D, it isn't even necessary.

That is not Apple’s only application of facial recognition: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/photos/phtad9d981ab/ma...

Not only is Face ID only stored in the one secure Apple chip (and not uploaded to Apple), but I'm fairly certain that the face identification that you linked is also only stored on your device as well.

Maybe it's changed, but I think that if you get a new device, it basically has to reindex all the faces iirc. Or maybe it's only stored in your own personal iCloud.

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