I wonder if there are copyright implications here. Do you own the copyright to the image that your phone takes of your face? What about the data that is created when you initially register your biometric?
Also, when the unlock process is checking for a match, is it creating a derivative work? Would this legal argument hold any more weight if you formally registered the copyright? (You'd think that two people taking two pictures of a vaguely similar public subject on different days could not amount to a copyright violation, but a court might disagree[0]).
Finally, does someone registering (or unlocking a device with) their biometrics grant a licence to or even ownership of that data to the company who manufactured the device? It would be interesting if the FBI had to request permission from Apple to create a derivative work of "their" copy of your face stored in their/your device.
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I wonder if there are copyright implications here. Do you own the copyright to the image that your phone takes of your face? What about the data that is created when you initially register your biometric?
Also, when the unlock process is checking for a match, is it creating a derivative work? Would this legal argument hold any more weight if you formally registered the copyright? (You'd think that two people taking two pictures of a vaguely similar public subject on different days could not amount to a copyright violation, but a court might disagree[0]).
Finally, does someone registering (or unlocking a device with) their biometrics grant a licence to or even ownership of that data to the company who manufactured the device? It would be interesting if the FBI had to request permission from Apple to create a derivative work of "their" copy of your face stored in their/your device.
[0] https://www.wpt.co.uk/resources/news/copyright-in-photograph...