{"id":36273,"date":"2020-02-08T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36273"},"modified":"2020-02-08T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:00:05","slug":"all-it-takes-to-fool-facial-recognition-at-airports-and-border-crossings-is-a-printed-mask-researchers-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36273","title":{"rendered":"All it takes to fool facial recognition at airports and border crossings is a printed mask, researchers found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.businessinsider.com\/image\/5df25692fd9db202c04bee94-2400\/kneron-team-member-next-to-his-own-high-quality-3d-mask.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kneron team member next to his own high quality 3D mask\" \/>Kneron<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> Researchers with an artificial-intelligence firm said they were able to fool <a href=\"https:\/\/businessinsider.com\/category\/facial-recognition?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">facial-recognition<\/a> software at an airfield and mobile-payment kiosks using a printed disguise, highlighting security vulnerabilities. The researchers said the tests, which were carried out across three continents, clowned two mobile-payment structures, a Chinese border checkpoint, and a passport-control gate at Amsterdam&#8217;s Schiphol Airport. However, researchers were unable to fool some facial-recognition software, including <a href=\"https:\/\/businessinsider.com\/category\/apple?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Apple&#8217;s<\/a> Face ID. The corporation that designed the disguise, Kneron, heightened $73 million from the likes of Alibaba, Qualcomm, and Scopes Ventures after the study ran viral. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?hprecirc-bullet?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Visit Business Insider&#8217;s homepage for more narratives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Facial recognition is being widely embraced as a protection tool &#8212; enforcement and corporations alike are rolling it out to keep tabs on who&#8217;s accessing airports, storages, and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the technology is fallible. Researchers with the artificial-intelligence firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kneron.com\/\">Kneron<\/a> announced that they were able to chump some facial-recognition systems use a printed disguise illustrating a different person&#8217;s face.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facial-recognition-fooled-with-mask-kneron-tests-2019-12?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOW WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/real-map-louisiana-should-scare-you-2017-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Most maps of Louisiana aren&#8217;t entirely right. Here&#8217;s what the country truly looks like .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Also \ud83d\ude1b TAGEND<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-learns-what-you-buy-at-physical-stores-ads-explained-2019-12?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">This is how Facebook learns what you buy at physical storages in order to show you relevant ads &#8212; and how to opt out<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-echo-dot-99-cents-deal-how-to-get-one-2019-12?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Amazon is giving away an Echo Dot for only $0.99 if you sign on for Amazon Music &#8212; here&#8217;s how to get one<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-mac-pro-display-xdr-screen-special-cloth-to-clean-2019-12?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Apple&#8217;s pricey brand-new $6,000 screen for the Mac Pro can only be cleaned with a special cloth from Apple<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/clothes-accessories-that-outsmart-facial-recognition-tech-2019-10?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\" >These clothes use preposterous designs to trick facial recognition software into thinking you&#8217;re not a human<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=Qm2FI7kC6Bc:bVg4rmsD8O8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~4\/Qm2FI7kC6Bc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~3\/Qm2FI7kC6Bc\/facial-recognition-fooled-with-mask-kneron-tests-2019-12\">feedproxy.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kneron Researchers with an artificial-intelligence firm said they were able to fool facial-recognition software at an airfield and mobile-payment kiosks using a printed disguise, highlighting security vulnerabilities. The researchers said the tests, which were carried out across three continents, clowned two mobile-payment structures, a Chinese border checkpoint, and a passport-control gate at Amsterdam&#8217;s Schiphol Airport. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18341,20719,15964,20718,15805,20720,46,15746],"class_list":["post-36273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-facial","tag-fool","tag-heres","tag-mask","tag-mdash","tag-printed","tag-software","tag-were"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/5df25ff9fd9db24a7b4cc1d91581130806.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}