Facial id

[upup]

My wife got a new phone, when installing the Absa banking app, it want to compare your face with your id number. Was wondering if Absa use my id photo pic, or how does it work.
You type in your sa id, then camera scan your face, then reject or accept.

 

[greg0205]

My wife got a new phone, when installing the Absa banking app, it want to compare your face with your id number. Was wondering if Absa use my id photo pic, or how does it work.
You type in your sa id, then camera scan your face, then reject or accept.

Okay, not with ABSA but this sounds weird... I know Capitec need you to go into a branch to activate the app, and maybe this is something like that.

Face ID is all on your phone and has nothing to do with ABSA, FICA or ID pics. Scan data is stored locally, on your phone, and nowhere else. Think of it as an evolution of a fingerprint ID on your phone.

You phone scans your face, then uses those datapoints to unlock the phone, or access the apps that require a pass or password... The FNB app asks you to allow a biometric login when you install the app, but after that accessing your banking shouldn't take more than a glance at the phone screen.

 

[CranialBlaze]

That’s home affairs biometrics, it will only work if you have the newer ID cards.

Capitec and FNB do it as well for opening accounts via the App, I think ABSA has taken it one step further and uses it for device linkin as well.