{"id":23861,"date":"2019-01-07T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23861"},"modified":"2019-01-07T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:56:54","slug":"smartphone-facial-recognition-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/07\/smartphone-facial-recognition-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone Facial Recognition Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/facial-recognition-doesnt-work-as-intended-on-42-of-110-tested-smartphones\/\">Catalin Cimpanu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/facial-recognition-doesnt-work-as-intended-on-42-of-110-tested-smartphones\/\"><p>The study, carried by Consumentenbond and its international partners, found that holding up a photo of the phone&rsquo;s owner is enough to unlock 42 of the tested smartphones.<\/p><p>Any photo will do, such as ones obtained from social media, CCTV footage, or other means.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumentenbond.nl\/veilig-internetten\/gezichtsherkenning-te-hacken\">According to Consumentenbond<\/a>, models from Asus, BlackBerry, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, and Xiaomi failed such tests.<\/p><p>Apple devices, known for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tried-to-beat-face-id-and-failed-so-far\/\">strong facial recognition feature<\/a>, survived the tests with their reputation intact, as expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The failing Samsung phones were from the cheaper A series; the S series passed, as did other HTC, Huawei, and Lenovo phones.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalin Cimpanu: The study, carried by Consumentenbond and its international partners, found that holding up a photo of the phone&rsquo;s owner is enough to unlock 42 of the tested smartphones.Any photo will do, such as ones obtained from social media, CCTV footage, or other means.[&#8230;]According to Consumentenbond, models from Asus, BlackBerry, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Nokia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-01-07T21:56:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"c9a90d20-a22b-46f8-8822-778af1097593","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-07T21:56:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyakNIKIrRviIIneK8Ql1kw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[248,1572,31,1610,42,48],"class_list":["post-23861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-face-id","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-samsung","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23862,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions\/23862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}