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by k__ 3203 days ago
so instead of stealing your finger print it's now enough to get a picture?
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You really didn't read the article did you. Second paragraph says "Apple says the facial scan is so accurate there’s now only a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of another random person’s face being able to unlock your phone. This is much better than the 1 in 50,000 error rate for Touch ID. And no, holding a photo up of someone can’t unlock their phone – nor can a Hollywood-grade face mask, which (shown below) were used by Apple’s engineering teams to train the feature."
I'll wait till the CCC had their take on this...
No, it's projecting dots onto the face for 3D mapping, and has an IR camera (which I'd guess maps facial heat).