facial scan
Visage recognition check
A facial scan is a digital mapping of someone's face, typically used for biometric identification or security purposes.
Smartphones use facial scans to unlock, airports use them to verify travelers, and law enforcement uses them to identify suspects.
The technology measures facial geometry—distance between eyes, jawline contours, nose shape—to create a unique faceprint.
My phone's facial scan doesn't work when I'm wearing sunglasses.
- biometricMeasuring unique physical characteristics
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- identityWho someone is
- retinaLight-sensing tissue layer
- irisEye's pigmented disc
verification · security · security checkpoint · camera · unlock · unlock phone · authentication · airport · border control · passport · surveillance · Big Brother · algorithm · database · detection · data breach · opt out · smartphone
- scans
- security termsPIN, password, passwords, encryption, encrypted
- private dataSSN, passwords, password, PII, PHI
- border controlvisa requirements, passport control, guard, border crossing, border security
- ID documentsID card, identity card, national ID, passport, photo ID
facial scanfingerprint
Friction ridge impression
fingerprint scan · voice recognition · iris scan · retinal scan · palm print
facial scanpassword
Authentication string
PIN · security question · ID card · passcode · visual inspection
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