For iPhone X and Co .: Facebook tests log-in with facial recognition

Facebook is working on its own face recognition for the social network. What  should be allowed by the operators to release accidentally blocked  accounts, could replace the password in the future before the login. It is questionable whether the technology requires certain cameras  such as the TrueDepth camera in the iPhone X in order to be able to  recognize the user safely.

Apple  has developed the face recognition Face ID for unlocking the iPhone X  and the following smartphones as well as for authentication when using  services like Apple Pay. Facebook is now also working on such a security feature, but the plans are for the time being probably more reserved. After Matt Navarra, The Next Web's Director of Social Media, published  a first reference to the new feature via Twitter, a company spokesman  told TechCrunch about what Facebook is working on.

Only for certain smartphones?

The face recognition for the social network is currently in a test phase. It is also intended for one purpose only: To authenticate users who no longer have access to their Facebook account. As reported by TechCrunch, Facebook has already tried many other ways  in the past: in this case, for example, users had to name their friends  on images, or enter several codes that had previously been sent by  Facebook to friends.

It is questionable, how surely the face recognition of Facebook works, or how difficult it is to trick them out. The  question arises especially because there are finally many different  smartphones and only the fewest at all have a front camera with depth  perception. However, this is probably necessary so that the security system can not be tricked out with a photo. We  are eager to see if Facebook will offer the feature only to users with  an iPhone X or a Huawei nova 2, and whether users will be able to use  face detection in the future as a standard method for logging in.