Xiaomi is working on a new technology that would protect sensitive data from your smartphone using the front-facing camera. For now, it is only a patent, but the Chinese manufacturer could use it in the future.
The Xiaomi Mi11
It’s always hard to see someone z’yeuter on their phone. What’s more, when someone else uses your device to look at photos, for example, you don’t necessarily want notifications to appear or to access private data. Xiaomi is working on a solution.
Indeed, the Chinese manufacturer has filed a patent to prevent anyone other than you from going snooping around in your precious smartphone. This is just an idea, of course, but nothing prevents Xiaomi from one day using it on its consumer products.
Xiaomi wants to use the front-facing camera
The operation described by the patent is as simple as hello. The phone scans your face and keeps it in memory (something that is already common on mobiles). If someone other than you uses your smartphone, the smartphone will know and block some private data. Simple and effective, but still complicated to set up. The thing also seems to work when someone looks at your screen over your shoulder, according to IT Home.
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For this to work effectively, your front-facing camera must be constantly activated. This would therefore pose potential security and privacy concerns, which is paradoxical. Similarly, one can ask the question of the energy consumed by such technology in the long run. At the moment, it is not known whether such a thing will be applied to the brand’s next smartphones or if it is only a secure idea. This is not the first time that some manufacturers have tried to focus on safety. For example, most of today’s terminals are equipped with facial recognition, or at least a fingerprint sensor.
Now all that remains is to wait for Xiaomi’s next flagship products to eventually see this new technology. The Chinese manufacturer has a habit of filing a whole bunch of patents to protect its ideas, without necessarily exploiting them.
Source: GizChina
