content: Facial recognition isn't based on the surface appearance of your skin but your facial geometry - the relative distances between your eyes and nose, nose and lips, etc. And like all deep learning it's based on percentages of certainty so if you just do something like wear a fake nose it'd still be able to tell that's 'probably' you. Really cool stuff. And yeah, this makes me confused. I am a huge advocate for privacy, but there's really no way around the fact that technology is going to destroy privacy. I think instead of fighting technology and data collection it might be time to take the approach of looking to control what exactly can be done with data that's collected.