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by iosjunkie 5 days ago
I would love to know how they are going to handle deepfakes.

Also, doesn't this give law enforcement an easier avenue to compel access to someone's accounts?

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Yes it does. Biometric information (e.g a picture of your face) is famously not nearly as protected under the 4th amendment compared to things like passwords.

Anyone opting into this feature is effectively giving any US law enforcement (including ICE, local law enforcement, etc) free reign over their data.

Not just USA, same in many other countries too.

If a journalist or activist don’t use face or fingerprints to unlock devices.

> Also, doesn't this give law enforcement an easier avenue to compel access to someone's accounts?

It does.

They or the government is going to make deepfakes using this.