Annotated Bibliography

Emspak, Jesse. “Should Apple IPhone X Trust Facial Recognition for Security?” Scientific American, 22 Sept. 2017. www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-apple-iphone-x-trust-facial-recognition-for-security/#.

Our face is the “future of smartphone security”. Computer-vision researches are skeptical that facial recognition on a smartphone can account for changes in our appearance or lighting conditions. Apple’s new technology sounds promising because it can create more than a 3-D map of ones features. However, facial recognition is used by law enforcement for things like checking a suspect against a data base of mug shots. It is undetermined if the IPhone X will remain secure because of facial recognition. People will encounter many challenges with having to use facial recognition. The Face ID won’t unlock if the user’s eyes are closed or if they are not aligned properly with the camera. This very same thing is used to unlock things like back accounts. Hackers find ways around even the highest security. Facial recognition will prevent ones IPhone and information from being secure. The evidence provided seems valid because the sources used are from an electronic engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Apple’s Senior Vice President of World Marketing, a professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University, and more. The argument that is made in this article does not only state the writers opinion, but it explores all ideas and concerns as well. With smartphones today, if your password has been compromised, you can just change it. However, with facial recognition how will you be able to change it because you can’t change your face? This question is used to emphasis one of the many dilemmas to come if we decide to move to facial recognition technology, starting with the IPhone. Yes, facial recognition will decrease security when it comes to smartphones and information on that smartphone, however, do we have really have privacy today? This will be used to argue the other side emphasizing the question about are we really giving up any privacy or is it already gone.

Morse, Jack. “Why the IPhone X's Facial Recognition Could Be a Privacy Disaster.” Mashable, 28 Aug. 2017. mashable.com/2017/08/28/trouble-facial-recognition-technology-smartphones/#Zwp.hRsr6Oql.

Facial recognition with the new IPhone X will lead to many problems in a short span of time. With facial recognition our face has become the key to unlock everything that is personal to us and in our lives. With facial recognition, there will be no privacy. It is like setting your password and letting the whole world know what your password it. You can easily take a screenshot of a picture of someone and use it to hack into someone’s phone. The Samsung’s Galaxy S8 was proved to be hackable with “nothing more than a photo”. The “always on” function on the new IPhone creates a huge privacy issue because the camera on the phone will always be on. Which means, that the device can record things you don’t intend it to by “default”. Facial recognition technology isn’t as good as some might think it may be. With facial recognition, we are relying on our faces as the key to unlock our phones, bank accounts, and more. The evidence provided seems valid because the sources used are from security researchers, an MIT PHD student, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, and more. This article isn’t just one sided. It weighs the pros and cons, as well as explains the concerns and problems facial recognition will have in the near future. With every new technology, specifically smartphones, that comes out, don’t we experience problems and setbacks until those problems and setbacks are learned from? This can be used to argue that we might not know a whole lot about facial recognition when it comes to smartphones, but overtime it will improve.

“How Do Consumers Really Feel About Facial Recognition?” EMarketer, 3 Oct. 2017. www.emarketer.com/Article/How-Do-Consumers-Really-Feel-About-Facial-Recognition/1016556.

Facial recognition on a smartphone is new to us consumers that many think it is “creepy”, or just “not normal”. We know that at some point in the future facial recognition will become the norm, however, many people do not like the thought of facial recognition on a smartphone. 34% favor facial recognition software, 39% did not favor it, and about 26% were not sure how they felt about it. Women were more likely to be cautious when it came to facial recognition technology than men. Apple uses an infrared camera and light projection that creates a 3-D map of the user’s face. Facial recognition capabilities for smartphones are still unknown. The evidence provided in this article is not that valid because there are no credible sources used to back up certain statements and positions made. Surveys were used to gather information used in this article. Yes, there are statistics provided but that is a small part of the argument that is being made. Women were more likely than men to be wary of technology, but is that because women don’t use technology as much or as often than men? This is used to question how valid the percentages in this article are. We can also use this to make an argument regarding if there’s enough people against it that facial recognition will not become the “norm” for society.