Biometrics
3 articles about "Biometrics".
ChatGPT Privacy Center Is a Map, Not a New Switch: Reading It Through Four Questions
OpenAI announced Privacy Center in the ChatGPT release notes on 21 September 2026. The official help article states that the controls remain in Settings, and that opening it does not change your settings or delete your data. Checked against four questions (default, scope, retention, revocation): the default has not moved, and there is no topic on images or faces; the multi-account connections added four days earlier widen the data sources a single conversation can reach.
Uploading a Selfie to ChatGPT Is Not a Filter: Your Face Is a Credential You Cannot Reset
Social feeds are full of "ask ChatGPT what I would look like as a Japanese gangster": upload a selfie, get a generated image back, then tag someone with "your turn". This is not a filter. A face is a credential that cannot be reset, consumer accounts by default allow content to be used to improve models, turning the setting off is not retroactive, and deleting a chat does not pull it back out of a training batch. With the original text of the terms, the full pipeline, the line between what can go to the cloud and what should never be uploaded, and the two paths in our own products that touch faces.
If Your Product Takes Photo Uploads, You Are Already Building a Biometric System: Four Questions for Every Image Endpoint
For people building AI products: once there is a path where a user uploads a photo and another face is generated from it, the data category is already identity material, whether the feature copy calls it a dress-up or a filter. Every upload endpoint that takes images needs four answers fixed before launch: default, scope, retention and revocation. Includes a full checklist, plus the two paths in our own products that touch faces and the work we have not finished yet.