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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by gruez on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:33PM (#18366005)
>A year before that, they announced face detection for the purposes of identity with enough accuracy that it can be used for financial transactions.

considering a random scribble on a receipt or check is enough to authorize/authenticate a transaction, that bar is pretty low.

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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by BillinghamJ on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:55PM (#18366190)
That’s not the bar anywhere outside the US. It’s a huge improvement in the US, but it’s still a big improvement everywhere else too.
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