If the government wanted your fingerprints, there are 10,000 easier ways they could do it than going thru the trouble of hacking your phones and pissing off everyone. Anyone can dig thru your trash and get your fingerprints. Having a fingerprint scanner is hardly a way to get them. And yes, the way the hardware designed makes it very difficult to access your fingerprint data unless you have the actual phone in hand.
99% of the people will appreciate the convenience. 1% of the rest, like you said, to each their own. Get a different phone. There is such limited stock the rest of us will appreciate the lesser competition.
That article you posted? If there was some grand conspiracy between Apple and the govt to go big brother on us, then that article would've never made the news.
But instead of jumping through hoops and going through every single person's trash, this is a seamless way to have an aggregate database. Sure, they could do the trash sorting method, but it's tedious.
Why would I care about this potential invasion of privacy? Sure the government has our fingerprints with passports and such, but to tie EVERY SINGLE thing you do on your phone to your fingerprint, seems quite incriminating.
I can think of political ways it could be manipulated too:
let's say I want to be a congressman (ew), and go to porn sites, and unlock my phone with my finger. Then years down the line, assuming this isn't revealed by the telecom company or the ISP they were accessed from, it can be confirmed and eradicate all doubt with a fingerprint scan. How else could it be someone else using the phone during this time if the only way to get on the phone is by using your fingerprint? Now you're Anthony Weiner, and nobody will vote for you. And the Man stays in office, indefinitely.
It also seems improbable you'd unlock the phone with your fingerprint, then immediately hand it over to someone for conducting criminal activities like planning a heist, drug dealing, whatever else it is criminals do, etc.
You don't have to worry about me messing with launch stock inventory, as I said before, not in the market for a new iPhone anyways. FWIW, touch id or no touch id didn't change my stance. But I'd still prefer for it to not be adopted with arms wide open.
And in regards to that article, even corporate media likes to post articles that seem to be conveying the news or for your benefit. But sometimes serious details can be omitted. And other times, seeming transparent is a good way to lose the trail. All that article states is that they are meeting. That really means nothing. "Obama - invasion of privacy isn't good but only because these things have been letting out and people are getting riled up; Cook - agreed; Obama - by the way, love your products, have a great day" hmmm I think not.
When Snowden's leak came about, Obama said what NSA was doing would have naturally peaked its head out, and that the FISA court is overseeing what they do.
Sounds good, but does it actually mean anything? To me, no.
It's not like I'm saying read every EULA because they contain misleading legal verbiage. This is something that seems so clearly like it has the potential to be manipulated without digging through the haystack,
And I'm not sure why expressing privacy concerns gets people fired up. I am questioning things in your best interest, if you don't care about your own privacy and your own life, I certainly don't either. Why don't you rip 1984 out of every reader's hands and stomp on it because its suggesting that higher authorities are capable of doing some not so nice things and will continue to when empowered with the public's indifference and are in a position to do so?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOF5R-7rx8
You should reject these voices.
I also was personally offended by the promotional video and Phil spending all of 1.5 seconds to explain how secure this touch id is. I think, especially in light of all the recent revelations and supposed 'paranoia', they should have spent more time detailing that and explaining how secure this method is, and why they have no way of obtaining it themselves even in when called to by the government.
