It must be horrific enough to be involved in an accident or an attack where you suffer a facial deformity and require reconstructive surgery, but how much worse would it be if your whole identity relied on the success of that surgery? It's a stupid idea. Look at the recent rise in things like "acid attacks". How much more prevalent and damaging would those be if it becomes a prerequisite for our face to look the same just to spend our money?
I'm not defending this smile-to-pay thing, but I don't think it's this easily exploitable. As far as I know(not sure, don't quote me on this), most decent facial recognition systems take note of the sort of "depths" of a certain face. So chances are that simply using a photo of a person won't do the job.
True enough, but with the advances being made in 3D printing, it probably won't be too long before someone could conceivably print out a realistic mask to wear. A simple photo still likely wouldn't be sufficient to generate the mapping for it, but how would you even know if you were being filmed/scanned as you walked into a building, for example?
find someone that uses face recognition, go to their social media, point camera at their picture and your in.
I'm not defending this smile-to-pay thing, but I don't think it's this easily exploitable. As far as I know(not sure, don't quote me on this), most decent facial recognition systems take note of the sort of "depths" of a certain face. So chances are that simply using a photo of a person won't do the job.
True enough, but with the advances being made in 3D printing, it probably won't be too long before someone could conceivably print out a realistic mask to wear. A simple photo still likely wouldn't be sufficient to generate the mapping for it, but how would you even know if you were being filmed/scanned as you walked into a building, for example?
Well, nothing stops people from going for a re-scan to "update" the database with their "new" facial features. They will possibly have some kind of alternative recognition method to help with situations like this. Examples : Retina scans or finger print scans etc.
My main concern is with the Muslim women that has to cover their faces at all time... how will they pay for services and goods, if this is going to be the only payment option. According to a study in 2015, Islam has 1.8 billion adherents, making up about 24.1% of the world population. (Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country) <--- Not all of them are women, but it is still a very high percentage of people that would not be able to use this system.
