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Re:Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online by rphln on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:45PM (#44525381)
Can't speak about this one in particular, but the face scans for banking that I know of also includes liveness checks to avoid AI impersonation (and presumably dead bodies).
Re:Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online by IshKebab on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:37PM (#44525888)
What kind of liveness checks?
Re:Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online by rphln on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:57PM (#44526085)
The app asks you to move the camera or change your expression throughout the verification.

I'm not familiar with how it works on the implementation side. A ML conference that I attended had a presenter working on this area and beating AI impersonation was their #1 priority (along with other trivial approaches).

For what it's worth, this might also be just a security theater from the banks, though.

Re:Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online by zimpenfish on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:17AM (#44529567)
> The app asks you to move the camera or change your expression throughout the verification.

The Natwest app will sometimes ask you to say words / numbers when doing a verification for e.g. a large transfer. Probably beatable by decent OCR feeding into voice synthesis with facial animation though (they don't have voice prints to check against that I'm aware of but even if they did...)