The new iPhone X with Face ID feature has not yet fallen into the hands of the first buyers, but many are concerned about privacy.
In the Senate of the United States is overdue two questions. The first is whether Apple to provide law enforcement a facial scans of users and will the company do to collect a database in the mercenary purposes.
U.S. Senator al Franken sent Apple CEO Tim cook a letter with a list of his disturbing questions. Many of the issues the policy has already been dubbed by the media and experts after the presentation of new products. Then, cybersecurity experts have criticized Apple, which stated that the probability of error when the Face ID with face recognition is one chance in a million. Franken also wants to understand exactly how the developers have set this indicator and the steps taken in order to protect against tampering, inform news.eizvestia.com.
As noted by Recode, the company has trained the algorithm on the example of a billion photos. One of the first questions, Franken — where Apple took these pictures. The Senator fears that the company will use the algorithm for their own purposes or to sell “prints of persons of” other companies, including security services.
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During the presentation of new products in the Steve Jobs Theatre’s senior Vice President of marketing Phil Schiller explained that all biometric data on the iPhone X will be processed by the processor on the device itself and will not be forwarded to the cloud. However, the Senator wants to make sure Apple will not change this procedure in the future and will not be any reason to store photos of the owner and other people who will be “under the gun” Face ID.
Franken wants to know whether the company to gain remote or direct access to the device and to extract biometric data of the owner of the iPhone X. the Senator also asked how Apple will respond to requests for police and other law enforcement agencies if they require access to the data.
Such a precedent already was. Last year the U.S. justice Department through the court demanded Apple to assist in the unlocking of the iPhone criminal who has committed a terrorist act in San Bernardino. The device was protected with the usual password, but after several incorrect entries, the system is locked. Apple demanded not only assistance, but also creating or providing a device that would help to bypass the lock. Tim cook said that creating “loopholes” in the system, the company will not, under any conditions. In the end, the FBI is allowed to hack the iPhone, so the proceedings were discontinued.
In the face recognition technology on the iPhone X there is nothing unique — a similar system applies to the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and it can be fooled by showing a photo of the owner. However, over the 10 years since the release of the first iPhone Apple devices have become a mass product, which sets new trends. The release of the iPhone X with face recognition promotes technology and make it ubiquitous.
The Chinese market reacted to the news about iPhoneX. As reported by The Verge, on the trading platform, Taobao, on the day following presentation has masks that cover the eyes or a significant part of a person’s face. So the Chinese sellers are offering to protect against face recognition using Face ID.
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