Facial Recognition 101

#WyvernFeed Lately, you may have actually started seeing "gender-swapped" selfies on social media. All of this is thanks to the newest and hottest fad, FaceApp.

But looking beyond the likes, FaceApp actually comes with a set of cybersecurity issues. According to the FBI, identity verification has conflicted multiple times due to the boom of sophisticated Facial AI, leading the way for identity theft and false accusations.

References:
https://www.cnnphilippines.com/business/2019/7/18/FaceApp-digital-privacy-Russian-developers.html

https://www.cnnphilippines.com/lifestyle/2019/7/29/Deleting-FaceApp-data.html

https://www.eff.org/pages/face-recognition

https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-iot-how-facial-recognition-software-works.html