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Identical Twins Can Open Apple FaceID Protected Devices
Apple's iPhone FaceID can be opened by an identical twin of the person who has registered their face to unlock the phone.
- Date it happened
- 2017-09-13
- Organisation involved
- Apple
- Product, system or model
- Facial recognition system to verify identity of phone user. FaceID uses 30,000 points of reference to map out users' faces to a neural network which is checked against every time the user attempts to
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