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A casual peace sign in a selfie has become China\u2019s latest online privacy concern after experts warned that the popular pose could expose users\u2019 fingerprints.<\/p>\n

In a mainland workplace reality show aired in April, financial expert Li Chang used a celebrity selfie to show how clearly visible fingers in a photograph could put personal biometric data at risk.<\/p>\n

Li said fingerprints could potentially be extracted from selfies taken within 1.5 metres if the fingers faced the camera directly. Even at a distance of 1.5 to 3 metres, around half of the hand details could still be recovered.<\/p>\n

The programme showed fingerprint ridges becoming visible after the image was enhanced with photo-editing software and artificial intelligence (AI) tools.<\/p>\n

According to China Newsweek, Jing Jiwu, a cryptography professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said portrait photos taken with high-quality cameras could make it possible to reconstruct hand details from a \u201cscissor hand\u201d pose.<\/p>\n

\"FourFour young high school students on their way home after class in China flash the peace sign for the camera. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n

He noted that fingerprint recovery was usually difficult due to factors such as lighting, focus and image clarity. However, the risk increases when photographs are taken with higher-resolution devices or when criminals obtain multiple related images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A casual peace sign in a selfie has become China\u2019s latest online privacy concern after experts warned that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[365,6015,363,43036,1244,215791,4924,115,8046,3623,1550,607,4444,18614,67256,1656,2516,6147,8453,1510,215798,3105,9362,36174,34893,16432,9948,45288,5658,4053,103,71764,1644,215790,215795,1958,24810,3561,12340,6540,191640,1345,18558,15975,215794,18206,46765,48053,1073,111,139,69,1642,215797,2892,16792,5920,20842,52589,45788,6903,16413,24067,215792,1518,7192,1519,1461,9542,215793,5419,65884,1321,3747,1305,7806,215796,30437,15362,39658,1072,8183,1552,6211,370,145,417,765,8002,50898,437,1528,36986,8844,416,25019,11548,8222,17708],"class_list":["post-420259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-attendance","tag-beauty","tag-biometric","tag-blur","tag-calls","tag-camera","tag-celebrity","tag-centre","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-clarity","tag-cloning","tag-company","tag-concern","tag-crime","tag-criminals","tag-cybersecurity","tag-dark-web","tag-data","tag-devices","tag-difficult","tag-documents","tag-editing","tag-employee","tag-enhanced","tag-experts","tag-exposes","tag-facial","tag-filters","tag-financial","tag-fingerprints","tag-fists","tag-focus","tag-forged","tag-fraud","tag-habits","tag-hand","tag-high-quality","tag-home","tag-identity","tag-illegally","tag-impersonate","tag-leaked","tag-lighting","tag-lock","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-palm-reading","tag-peace","tag-phone","tag-photographs","tag-portrait","tag-pose","tag-posting","tag-privacy","tag-professor","tag-reality-show","tag-reconstruct","tag-research","tag-risk","tag-risks","tag-scam","tag-sciences","tag-scissor","tag-screen","tag-selfie","tag-services","tag-shanghai","tag-show","tag-sign","tag-silicone","tag-slimming","tag-smart","tag-smooth","tag-social","tag-software","tag-suspicious","tag-system","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-television","tag-test","tag-theoretical","tag-tools","tag-tv","tag-university","tag-variety","tag-victims","tag-video","tag-visible","tag-voice","tag-warned","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}