Artificial intelligence company Kneron highlighted a major shortcoming in facial recognition technology when it visited public locations and tricked facial recognition terminals into allowing payment or access using high-quality 3-D masks. Fortune reports that facial recognition is billed as a more effective security tool that uses a person’s face rather than a PIN or fingerprint to validate the user’s identity. Being fooled by a mask means a fraudster could use another person’s face and bank account to go shopping. The tests were deployed at transportation hubs and at the self-boarding terminal in Schiphol Airport — the Netherlands’ largest airport — the team tricked the sensor with just a photo on a phone screen. Kneron says its team was able to gain access in the same way to rail stations in China where commuters use facial recognition to pay fares and board trains. The transportation experiments raise terrorism concerns amid security agencies’ quest to use facial recognition as a way of saving money and improving efficiency. Kneron’s CEO Albert Liu said the technology to fix these shortcomings is available, but firms have not upgraded it, preferring to take shortcuts at the expense of security.
https://fortune.com/2019/12/12/airport-bank-facial-recognition-systems-fooled/
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