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[–] 123 points 5 days ago

Absolutely fucking not

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  • [–] 86 points 5 days ago

    We're so f-ked.

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  • [–] 56 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Isn't Revolut that had a data breach like 10 days ago, leaking costumer data like IBANs etc??

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  • [–] 60 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Does it work with black people? Theres a bit of a history with facial recognition training and varying features.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 days ago

    Yeah it works great they don't even need to register, the system says they already did.

    Heck of a credit card bill, for that one guy. I wonder if theres a sneaky line in the TOS about how "best effort" is good enough and sticks him with the bill anyway.

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  • [–] 65 points 5 days ago (10 children)

    I have so many questions. How does it differentiate customers? Like say I'm standing in line just off to the side behind someone buying a few big ticket items, when the face scan happens how will it know which face to charge? Same question for a couple people checking out together. Will I have to take my hat and sunglasses off to check out or does it use other technologies to build face maps like lidar? What if I got a broken nose or fractured orbital, can I just not buy things? What about beards, if a guy scans his face initially with a beard and shaves it, how will the system respond? Is there an upper limit on purchases made this way like there is with tap to pay? What will it do about age verified products like tobacco or alcohol?

    I would bet money they didn't test for any of that and if they did it would be within very narrow parameters.

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  • [–] 51 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Bro, don't kill the vibes with all of this very real world shit that will actually happen. Just smile for the camera and it will all be over soon.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    How easy is it to use it to scam people? If I smile in public, can I get photographed and that used to pay things? Is a smiling photo the next “they stole my card”?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    The Intuit Dome in LA already does this. You grab food/drinks and it automatically charges you based on your face. And you guessed it, there have been many complaints about people getting charged for something they didn’t get. I’m never stepping foot inside that venue.

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    [–] 51 points 5 days ago

    "I saw my buddy in the mall and I hollered out 'Hey Doug!'. He looked over and paid for my lunch!". /s

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago

    My apartment building has a facial recognition system to unlock the door to the building. My cousin got recognized as his brother that was in the system and the door just opened for them.

    What a wonderful idea to use the same tech to deal with money.

    Cue Zooey Deschanel/Kate Perry/Emily Blunt meme

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  • [–] 25 points 5 days ago

    I bet the false positives are through the roof.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago*

    Fast forward 5 months: massive data breach for everyone that used the system, mischarges from others to your account with no way to get your money back, police and politicians demanding data access without a court order, etc

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  • [–] 37 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    A couple of weeks ago I posted in c/privacy about this shit in my home country. This shit should be illegal.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 days ago

    Not in a thousand fucking years

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    I can't wait until these sports and concert venues switch to FacePay only. They already refuse to take cash.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    I'll pass completely then, I don't mind credit cards too much since I like to get refunds.

    I can't say my face isn't already in a bunch of countries databases in multiple countries; but I'll take the small loss to get in and out of the airport.

    Despite not completely agreeing with the method, flying into Japan is so easy now. Literately just go get my passport sticker-ed, the more stickers the less questions, look in the camera, grab my luggage, check in a podium terminal and mark that you don't have pets and find out what exit to go through, and then walk out, another camera scans your face as you walk out. I would say the only thing that's slow is the baggage claim. Korea is really bad with this one.

    I think eventually it will be inevitable. But I'll stick with cash as long as I can, not having something in your hand makes it really easy to overspend.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    It's going to be great when I can walk up to someone with a Point-of-Sale app on my phone, scan their face and charge them money.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    No phone, or card, or cash required

    Don't forget no fuckin thanks.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Trusting Revolut when they say that your personal data is safe... man, I'd better not

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago* (2 children)

    Every online business that collects photo ID has been hacked and those IDs have been stolen. Just saying.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Yes but there's a big difference between IDs and biometric data, not to mention you can (in Europe at least) revoke an ID if you find it's compromised, you can revoke an ID you can't revoke your face.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    This is the important part. Faces are immutable. Unless you're a weird celebrity, you only get one.

    Attaching your financial data and/or private data to something that cannot be changed and CAN be stolen or reproduced is a terrible fucking idea.

    While real security technologies are moving toward ephemeral, short-lived credentials to fight credential reuse and theft, we have these fucktards going in the complete opposite direction.

    Your face is NOT a password.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago

    Computer says no.

    • you look like someone dodgy

    Computer says no.

    • you are flagged as a dissident terrorist

    Computer says no.

    • a solar storm broke electronics

    Computer says nothing.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    how does this lower the cost? yeah it doesn't fuk off. more stealing from consumers without them knowing.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Oh you smiled twice! Double charged.

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    [–] 20 points 5 days ago

    Great, now my twin can go shopping for me.

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  • Are we gonna have to be Juggalos now?

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    [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    Me: (carries unflattering picture of Elon musks head everywhere for no reason)

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    It's much easier to make you smile than to force you to give up your credit card pin number when being robbed!

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    [–] 7 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Ya know I may be a Californian Redneck but I do at least with my facial features look pretty big standard ethnically Scottish, how many false positives could I trigger with my ugly mug? Regardless get one of those blowtorch lighters and melt the plastic camera lenses on these pieces of absolute detritus.

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    [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    No one ever had those problems.

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    [–] 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    In another world without the technological horrors, this would be cool.

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    [–] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    How is their slogan not “you should Smile more”

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    [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    Would be funny if the company is based in French.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    The world is catching up with China I guess

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