BiasMedium
Identical Twins Can Open Apple FaceID Protected Devices
- Occurred
- Sep 13, 2017
- Published
- Dec 15, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Apple's iPhone FaceID can be opened by an identical twin of the person who has registered their face to unlock the phone.
Developers
- Apple
Deployers
- Apple
Harmed parties
- Parents of twins
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: FaceID vulnerability affects identical twins, representing a demographic-based security failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8