Apple has unveiled its latest range of smartphones, including the iPhone X , which uses Face recognition to unlock the device. The phone will scan, store and track user details with unprecedented precision by using a unique set of sensors And the front camera of the phone. Although not the first smart phone to use this face recognition feature, it is the first phone that uses this feature mainly to open the device and perform digital payments.

Since the iPhone X has been unveiled, many security experts have said that Face ID may pose a threat. The previous Touch ID ID system requires the user to click on the Home Home button to work, Face ID requires just looking at the phone screen to unlock it.

Previous experience has shown that facial recognition systems can easily be fooled by images or masks, and there are growing concerns about privacy, safety and the potential for companies and governments to exploit this technology for surveillance and tracking purposes.

Apple’s iPhone X has tried to dispel many of these concerns, relying on its own record and record of security and protection for its users. Face scanning seems to be one of the main privacy battles of the next few years.

The most important question now is whether Apple’s adoption of facial tracking technology is very convenient for users.

How does Face ID work?

The new iPhone X features a range of sensors at the top of the phone, including a point viewer, infrared camera and lighting, where the point projector drops 30,000 blank points on the user’s face, The infrared spotlight sheds can not be seen, and the IR camera works on scanning and clearing points.

This information goes to an iPhone phone processor, so data is processed to see if the face of the person trying to open the phone matches the face stored in the phone when Face ID is set up. The setup is easy and involves moving the face while the phone is scanning the face And processing its data.

Does the feature work in the dark or glasses?

Face ID uses an infrared camera, which means that it is not affected if the user is in bright sunlight or in dark dark places. Minor changes on the face such as makeup, slightly facial hair growth or wearing sunglasses or hat will not stop the feature from Work, because the feature work program adapts to minor changes.

While the big face changes such as shaving the beard completely affect the work of the feature, and the user should record the face within the phone again, and the need to see the eyes and mouth and nose of the work, which means it will not work if the user to wear the burqa or niqab or Balaklava, Which covers the head and entire neck except for parts of the face and are usually made of wool.

Can Face ID be spoofed?

Apple points out that it is highly unlikely that its face recognition feature will be fooled, and the data indicate that there is one chance out of 50,000 opportunities so someone else can unlock the phone with the Touch ID feature.

While Apple’s data indicates that there is one possibility out of a million to unlock the phone by mistake through Face ID, which means that there are about 7499 people in the world are able to unlock the phone of the user.

Other face recognition systems have been deceived by a facial image or mask, such as the face recognition system on Samsung’s latest phones, which was deceived by an image taken from a user’s profile on his social networking platform.

Face ID is different from the iPhone X by using a 3D sensor, which means that the phishing method will not work. The company says the face masks will not work, and they have tested further, including Hollywood studios To produce realistic face masks.

Does Apple currently have a user profiles database?

Recently, there have been concerns about the number of face recognition images stored by police and companies, along with the security problems on the subject, often without people’s knowledge. Apple has in the past focused on a point that it does not store personal data for users on Khodamha unless it is necessary, so that the Face ID feature does not differ.

This means that Apple is working to keep the data in a safe place on the iPhone X itself, and the company points out that the data does not go out of the phone, and uses the same way that the preservation of the touch ID within the phone itself.

The fear of corporate access to face recognition data is illogical as there are many user profiles in their profile on different social media platforms.