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The internet feels appropriately weird about Apple's Face ID

It's weird as hell.
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Nothing to see here, just a tech company that wants your face.

At the close of Apple's Tuesday event, the tech company unveiled its "one more thing": the iPhone X, complete with Face ID, a security feature that enables users to unlock their phones using facial recognition technology.

SEE ALSO: Apple unveils iPhone X

Setting aside that the first on-stage demo of Face ID didn't work, the internet is appropriately skeptical of giving a major tech company access to our actual faces. After all, as our tech correspondent notes, it's a potential security nightmare.

But even though our collective existential crisis regarding the implications of giving a tech company our face data, we've still got a few Game of Thrones jokes in us.

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Laura Vitto was Mashable's Deputy Culture Editor.

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