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Re:iPhone X by bo1024 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:32PM (#15235302)
> Your issue, I think, is that you don't trust the tools on the phone to read faces or fingerprints

And/or, you don't want to give Apple your facial or fingerprint information.

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Re:iPhone X by seandougall on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:50AM (#15235638)
Unless you believe Apple is lying, that information is never sent to them. The hardware is designed such that, with TouchID at least, it's never even seen by the CPU on the phone.

If you do believe Apple is lying and is secretly phoning home with your personal information, then I think you'd have bigger problems than fingerprints; I would be more concerned about surveillance on everything you do with the phone.

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Re:iPhone X by 794CD01 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:49AM (#15235635)
How does that work? You put a piece of tape over the front-facing camera?
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