Posted on 12/21/2017 3:45:36 PM PST by Rusty0604
Apple has been accused of racism, amid reports that the Face ID authentication technology on its new iPhone X is failing to distinguish between Chinese users.
A man from Shanghai bought his wife the new gadget soon after it was released last month, but she was shocked to discover it could be unlocked by her teenage son.
The man, identified only by his surname Liu, phoned Apple's customer service hotline to report the problem.
"Our son was using it and didn't know the password", he said, according to Shandong TV Station .
He was told it was an isolated case and was due to the fact his wife and son look very similar. However, Apple has reportedly launched an investigation into the Liu family's claims.
This is not the first reported incident of Chinese users being able to unlock each other's iPhone Xs.
Last week, AsiaOne reported that a woman from Nanjing discovered her colleague was able to unlock her phone using Face ID.
When Madam Yan first called Apple's hotline to complain about the problem, the customer service representative told her it was "impossible".
However, when pair took the phone to the store to prove what had happened, they found they could unlock all the phones in the store.
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I had a phone/camera that kept telling me my Asian friend’s eyes were closed.
There have been multiple reports of family members being able to unlock each others’ iphone X’s due to facial similarities. Facial recognition is the answer to a question no one was asking - the thumb print recognition works fine and is more secure. Find a way to place a fingerprint sensor under the display and get rid of that ugly notch at the top and I’ll buy one.
I see a grievance queue is forming:
6 or maybe 10 years ago it was black people screaming about the camera not recognizing them as people.
The Age of Idiocracy.
People toss around the word “racism”. They have no realization of what real racism is. Its far more than someone’s viewpoint about race relations. It is a brutal, painful way of life for those subjected to it by a group or a whole society.
Ho Lee Fuk. Sum Ting Wong.
I’m an old, bald white guy. I’d be the first one to tell you that all old, bald, white guys look alike. We’re so interchangeable we can have meals at each other’s house and not be caught out.
They all do look alike...! LOL!
Apparently the Mexicans haven’t tried it yet.
LOL
I wouldn’t use any biometric identifiers for passwords. I don’t trust the tech companies to not collect the data surreptitiously and then eventually do a big data dump for the government.
I forget the exact incident, but remember someone gave some messed up Asian names to newscaster in the bay area and she fell for it? Hilarious.
You’d think they would have tested this at the Foxconn plant.
Lol
Confucius say man who use face phone lose face.
Facebook is asking for that from their members. Voluntary and kept confidential, of course.
“I forget the exact incident, but remember someone gave some messed up Asian names to newscaster in the bay area and she fell for it? “
Never forget the courage of that flight crew
Sum Ting Wong
We Tu Lo
Ho Lee Fuk
Bang Ding Ow
My wife and I almost choked watching that on YouTube. That newsreader had to have been braindead not to notice sum ting was wong.
LOL. I bust out laughing every time I think of that. SF plane crash.
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