The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.
The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.
Hmm, is there an app/feature where if I use my thumb-print instead of say, my fore-finger print, it wipes the phone instead?
I looked into it a few years ago. Eg left thumb locks biometrics and requires pw (thus saving you from this particular law) . Right thumb just unlocks like normal.
Back then it was impossible, because biometrics couldn’t differentiate between fingerprints for lord knows which security reason.
No idea if there is a solution for this already, but imo it would be a very important security feature.
As far as I know, nothing like that’s possible, apps can only ask the OS to authenticate and return success or failure. They have no way of knowing which finger you used.
Tasker does this on android and the event can be chained to launch scripts and apps.
@Lycist
For convenience, I use biometrics to unlock a few apps. But I haven’t found a way to do that and be able to use only pin to unlock the phone (android)
@TaviRider
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