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QUESTION

What are the concerns related to impersonation and deepfakes when using biometric data, and how are they addressed?

3:18:47

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52 sec

Jake Parker explains that using biometric data itself to impersonate someone's identity is not possible due to how it is created and used.

There are concerns about using deepfakes to impersonate individuals during facial recognition authentication.
The industry employs technologies like liveness detection and video authenticity detection to address deepfake concerns.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

3:18:47

And in in any of of your line of work or for your clients, Do any of you have any concerns about identity defects or AI influenced images in the way that businesses partners, nonprofits are capturing biometric information?

Jake Parker

3:19:08

Yeah, sure.

3:19:08

So as mentioned earlier that you can that a concern about using biometric data to impersonate your identity, the way biometric information is created and used, that is just not possible.

3:19:19

There is concerns about using, you know, deep fix, you know, drops student personate someone who's doing some kind of authentication.

3:19:26

Using their face.

3:19:27

And that's something that the industry is definitely on top of.

3:19:30

There's a technology called liveness detection and authenticity.

3:19:34

Authenticity detection.

3:19:36

In video.

3:19:37

There's often a layer onto those systems.

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