[liberationtech] Masks and Photos Can Fool Airport and Payment Systems Facial Recognition

[Yosem Companys]

Artificial intelligence company Kneron highlighted a major shortcoming in
facial recognition technology when it visited public locations and tricked
facial recognition terminals into allowing payment or access using
high-quality 3-D masks. Fortune reports that facial recognition is billed
as a more effective security tool that uses a person’s face rather than a
PIN or fingerprint to validate the user’s identity. Being fooled by a mask
means a fraudster could use another person’s face and bank account to go
shopping. The tests were deployed at transportation hubs and at the
self-boarding terminal in Schiphol Airport — the Netherlands’ largest
airport — the team tricked the sensor with just a photo on a phone screen.
Kneron says its team was able to gain access in the same way to rail
stations in China where commuters use facial recognition to pay fares and
board trains. The transportation experiments raise terrorism concerns amid
security agencies’ quest to use facial recognition as a way of saving money
and improving efficiency. Kneron’s CEO Albert Liu said the technology to
fix these shortcomings is available, but firms have not upgraded it,
preferring to take shortcuts at the expense of security.

https://fortune.com/2019/12/12/airport-bank-facial-recognition-systems-fooled/
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