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Apple's Touch ID raises privacy concerns for U.S. senator

article published on 20 September, 2013

U.S. Senator Al Franken has written a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook requesting information about Apple's Touch ID fingerprint technology. Franken asks Cook questions that Apple may have already answered in its PR campaigns about the iPhone 5s and the safely of the Touch ID fingerprint technology. The Cupertino-based giant assured users that fingerprint data is safely stored in the A7 ... [ read the full article ]

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Xian
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_ 		21. September 2013 @ 11:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's a valid concern with any kind of biometric data. You can't change your fingerprints, retina pattern, or dna so if that was ever compromised there would be very little you could do.
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GrandpaBW
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_ 		21. September 2013 @ 23:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I rarely agree with anything that Al Franken has to say, but on this subject, he is spot on.
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_ 		22. September 2013 @ 00:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wouldn't it be scary if a corrupt government could imprison it's detractors with evidence from a digital database of DNA and fingerprints that they say is irrefutable?
America, land of the free, corporate run prisons, and more people imprisoned per capita than any other nation.
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