Microsoft Teams developed a feature when if you’re using a background and turn sideways, your nose and the back of your head are automatically cut off.
Bug closed, no longer an issue, overcome by events.
Interesting that you bring that up. The most egregiously invasive student and employee monitoring software requires that the subject always face the camera. That seems most ripe for bypassing with the current state of deepfakes. https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-priv...
My bank does a much better system where they ask for a photo of you holding your ID and a bit of paper with a number the support person gave you for authorizing larger transactions. It's still not bullet proof but since you already have to be logged in to the app to do this, I'd say it is sufficient.
This case I was on the bank text support requesting to make a transaction of $100,000 in one go which the app would not let me do. So it was a real person on the other side. Bank was in Australia called Up.
This sounds like a good thing. An extra step in a $100,000 transaction to prevent accidents or crimes definitely feels justified if the accounts not marked as normally moving heaps of money like a billionaire or something.
I'd trust the data with a (real, not online) bank more than most other companies like Google.
I'd be more worried about people hacking into networked security camera DVRs at stores and cafes and extracting image data from there. Multiple angles. Movement. Some are very high resolution these days. Sometimes they're mounted right on the POS, in your face. Sometimes they're actually in the top bezel of the beverage coolers.
Banks are the hardest way to get this data, not the easiest one.
Good point. I’m still wary of just assuming (if that’s what we’re doing here?) that old established organizations you’d expect to be secure are in fact secure. For example I would have expected credit rating agencies to be secure…
Mandatory reporting certainly helps IMO. Reporting should be mandatory for anyone handling PII.
No bank is going to run such a system in house. It will be a contracted service whose data is one breach away from giving fraudsters a firehose of data to exploit their victims.
Frankly, of all the personally identifying data I share with my bank, a low resolution phone video of the side of my head is the least worrying. It's like worrying the government knows my mum's maiden name!
In the eventuality that robust deepfake technology to provide fluid real-time animation of my head from limited data sources exists and someone actually wants to use it against me, they can probably find video content involving the side of my head from some freely available social network anyway.
