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RandomComputerFellow t1_j9oj6gy wrote

Reply to comment by passinghere in Samsung Bixby will clone a user's voice to answer phone calls by Stiven_Crysis

I think this will lift identity theft onto a next level. When your phone is hacked. Hacker not only have your contacts, your conversations, access to your email inbox, your SMS inbox, your scanned documents, your password manager, your online banking, your payment information, your private photos but also your voice to say whatever they want.

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_j9okglg wrote

When was the last time you used your actual voice to verify something? I don't know a single institution (bank, government, etc) that would even notice or say anything if I "changed" my voice.

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RandomComputerFellow t1_j9om0z8 wrote

Well, I don't speak about my bank. I speak about stuff like calling my grandmother pretending that I have problems and desperately need to raise a huge amount of money or calling my secretary to ask her to make a quick wire transfer to a company in Russia because we just made a business deal with them.

In a country where Indian call centers can steal billions of dollars from people by pretending to be the IRS or Microsoft Support and you need to send them Google Play Gift cards to pay your taxes, do you really doubt people would fall for this?

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Chamilton1337 t1_j9p55io wrote

For my bank in Canada I activated the voice recognition option

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darkkite t1_j9pzm52 wrote

fidelity offers this as well as other banks. never used it but it exists

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epic_null t1_j9r2ly0 wrote

I think I was calling about my retirement fund when I was enrolled and had to explicitly be removed from it

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