TOTV Login Facial Recognition?
 

Friend told me the TOTV moderator assigned her login via facial recognition? When did TOTV start that?

I have a bridge for sale if you're interested.

That is funny!!

I think your friend is pulling your leg.

I am not sure I will continue using TOTV if they remove access to the old version? I am definitely out if I need to use facial recognition to login.

Person is new to TOTV and had trouble logging in. Stated when TOTV support contacted her she was required to do facial recognition to log in. I am awaiting response from TOTV to let them know about this. Never heard of it myself in all these years. I think the person somehow got on another site.

Facial recognition is used on many iPhones to sign into an app without having to use a password. That's how I access my bank accounts and many other apps. Maybe that's what the OP was talking about.

Device dependent
 

I suspect your friend is using a device that uses facial recognition for logging into the device (certain recent Apple phones, for example). My iPhone allows me to logon to it using my fingerprint. When I allow my iphone to store my password for a particular site, like the villages.net, my phone prompts me to authenticate by fingerprint to access the site, rather than entering the password. It is similar to when PC users allow their internet browser, like Google, to store their password so they do not need to enter it every time they use the site.

So, it isn’t TOTV that is doing facial recognition, it is the device the person is using to look at TOTV. Nothing to worry about🙂

Ridiculous. I wouldnt give it a second thought. TOTV isnt a site of the future.

Some mornings I hardly recognize my own face, I so seldom look in a mirror. I don’t know how Talk of the Villages is going to recognize it. We haven’t even met.

This is probably the best explanation. I am certainly not aware of any such technology being implemented. I did flag this for the tech support person to see.

Should be a non-issue.

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Yikes, even though facial recognition is not a necessity from this website, I fear I will always be behind the 8 ball with technology. I am still using an IPhone 6, so definitely no facial recognition on that!

My hairdresser says, the 12th of never. :)

Could be possible. I use facial recognition with my gate pass.

Friend told me
 

>>Friend told me<< Start your investigation here.

People will believe anything.

For April Fools one year, I posted official-looking notices on all the copy machines explaining they had been updated with voice recognition. You had to register your voice. State your name, the word, "copies" and the number of copies, and then the word "start". Because it is in learning mode, you might have to repeat the command slower and louder.

Multiple people were standing and screaming at the copy machines, "Joe Blow, copies, 10, start". It was hilarious.

How so? (I could go for that one...)

Now that is really funny!!!!! Nice.

TOTV is NOT doing facial recognition! If that was the case it was a device on her end.

Kidda personal. :clap2:

Everyone looks the same to me when I drive through the Villages, so I think that it would take a pretty good program to recognize one old senior from another...........:1rotfl::MOJE_whot:

I'm in the market for one. Upper or lower and which teeth? (sorry, I just couldn't help myself. lol)

Facial recognition, finger prints, retina identification are all invasion of privacy and should only be used by the police, officials etc under very special circumstances. The fact that Apple would like to make it common, using NASA type security for your family cell phone (hubby and I have 4 of them which we share constantly) does not make it more acceptable. If one believes that Ancestry.com doesn’t share their DNA with the police, and one believes that Apple keeps their profile private then they are ignorant and vulnerable.

Facial recognition also requires that the user have a webcam. Since so many Villagers don't even know what that word means, let alone have one of their own, I'm doubting ToTV will EVER require facial recognition to log in. They'd lost half their membership.

A little mean.... but oh so hilarious ! !

I know what a webcam is. It's the first thing I put a piece of tape over when I bought this computer.. :1rotfl: