Samsung Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S9, OnePlus 6, LG G7 ThinQ fooled by 3D Printed heads

Thanks to the rise of AI, facial recognition is cropping up everywhere and most probably some or the other technology is scanning our face every day. While it is aimed at protecting your smartphone from privacy invaders, but in a way, the facial recognition itself is a privacy invader. When tested with a 3D-printed head, four smartphones running Android OS managed to enter with a fake face, while Apple's iPhones were impossible to break through. The head was printed at Backface in Birmingham, U.K., Together, they combine to take a single shot that makes up a full 3D image. That image is then loaded up in editing software to iron out any errors. For the test, LG G7 ThinQ, Samsung S9, Samsung Note 8 and OnePlus 6 smartphones were used including an iPhone X. Then the fake head was pointed at the Android devices to see if the spoof face was able to open the phone, though with differing degrees of ease. The iPhone X was the only one to never be fooled, while all the four Android phones were fooled easily. There were some disparities between the Android devices' security against the hack. For instance, when first turning on a brand-new ...