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by NotPaidToPost 2557 days ago
This has nothing to do with FaceID, which isn't mentioned in the article.

WeChat has its own face recognition system.
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foozed 2557 days ago
Ah ok, i thought the author meant FaceID in the passage:

> I have my WeChat linked with the facial recognition scanner on my iPhone

was not aware that WeChat has its own system. They don't get to use the "special" FaceID sensors/scanners though right? Just the camera?

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_ui4r 2557 days ago
It looks like depth data can be accessed through the AVFoundation framework provided by Apple.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/camer...

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rcao 2557 days ago
No, WeChat and Alipay do use FaceID to do payment verification on iPhone.
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NotPaidToPost 2557 days ago
Maybe they do but at least WeChat have their own face recognition technology, in which case they do hold people's biometric data.

This is not that big a deal in China considering that people have photo ID card, which means that the government already had everyone's biometric data.

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