Apple’s fingerprint technology “raises substantial privacy questions,”...
Apple’s fingerprint technology “raises substantial privacy questions,” said Senate Privacy Subcommittee Chairman Al Franken, D-Minn., in a letter to Apple Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/18Gz92n). Apple introduced a fingerprint reader on the iPhone 5S it released Friday. While passwords can change, fingerprints are…
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permanent, he wrote. “If you don’t tell anyone your password, no one will know what it is. If someone hacks your password, you can change it -- as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret,” he wrote. “If hackers get a hold of your thumbprint, they could use it to identify and impersonate you for the rest of your life.” Franken introduced a location privacy bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last year.