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Fingerprint sensor - serious matter
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Forget the robbers, my concern lies with wondering whether or not this thing will capture your fingerprint regardless of whether you turn on the feature or you don't.
Personally, I'd rather not have my fingerprint digitally stored on my phone. I'd have zero issues with this feature if it wasnt built into a button that I absolutely have to use.
Personally, I'd rather not have my fingerprint digitally stored on my phone. I'd have zero issues with this feature if it wasnt built into a button that I absolutely have to use.
I did have to give fingerprints for my passport, so i guess i am in the system.
otherwise, i don't recall ever giving my fingerprint to any other government body.
Well, now they can 100% track you without a shadow of a doubt by tying your phone location to your fingerprinted login.
Is that a new requirement? I don't remember giving mine for my passport. Though they have them anyways for a couple licenses in the past (Merchant Marine, etc).
Remember when you were a child, and they took your fingerprints for safety records in case of abduction, kidnapping, etc.?
If I remember right, your fingerprints don't change, so if they took them then, they've had them for a long while.
BL.
I think if a robber was ballsy/crazy enough to cut off a finger to access an iPhone they would be targeting bigger things than to steal an iPhone.
Having them is one thing.
Having them tied to a location everytime you unlock your mini computer/phone, or to all activity done on said device after unlocking it is another thing.
Now this is all hypothetical of course, but Apple has only stated that the digital fingerprint is not stored in the cloud. They've said nothing about what applications, system logs, etc have access to and or tie back to that fingerprint.
I think petty theft and GBH are to wildly different crimes and thus incur different penalties, this will probably deter most petty criminals from 'cutting your finger off.' Like with most things, the criminal community are more likely to find a technological solution to this new problem
Actually they don't have your fingerprints, unless you've submitted to a background check. Passports and other forms of government ID do not require a fingerprint, however this will all change with the 5S.
Just think of the possibilities, access to all iphone users fingerprints, and location information real time!
But some will clearly get you to unlock it, and if you don't you could still be harmed.
It is stored on your phone and it has to be. But it is not uploaded to apple servers or iCloud.
With all due respect they said the same about saved data on hard drives and they can even access those now.
If they want it they'll have it.