I can only see this going into a very dystopian path. Based on their actions, I don’t trust these companies, their security practices, nor their privacy policies. Why would I give them my biometrics? And my full palm, at that!? Hell no!

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Biometrics also aren’t great and uniqueness. At least where computers are concerned.

    Recently we had one of our customers install fingerprint readers on their points of sale, the idea being any staff member can log in just by touching the pad. Even with only a few hundred staff registered, you get people logging in as each other.

    • @AWistfulNihilist
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      I worked with Kronos, had their top tier biometrics in a 1,000+ employee company.

      1. The data is only as good as the person loading the data.

      2. Some people don’t have good fingerprints.

      It was bad enough that of you had a person with a bad fingerprint, Kronos would just take ANY input. It would even tell you if a persons fingerprint wasn’t good enough. It happened fucking constantly.

      So either it’s so good you can’t escape it, it is so bad you can’t use it to identify anyone uniquely. It’s literally either a threat or an inconvenience.