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To be fair, that's _at least_ up to the OS, and iOS does do this. Every in app purchase has to be approved from an OS-provided dialogue that requires hardware i
by madeofpalk 8y ago
To be fair, that's _at least_ up to the OS, and iOS does do this. Every in app purchase has to be approved from an OS-provided dialogue that requires hardware interaction to approve.
One problem I have seen from this was an ancestry app that prompted you to scan your fingerprint to "find your relatives", and then would prompt for IAP, which asks for Touch ID approval. Because you already had your thumb on the reader, it would more or less instantly be approved. Unsure if Apple has made any changes around this yet. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9bxw0f/this_ancestry_app_attempts_to_make_you_use_your/ https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9bxw0f/this_ancestr...
- wool_gather 8y agoApps don't have access to the actual fingerprint data, though. Presumably they were just using it as a login guard?
- jboles 8y agoThe issue is not the app getting the fingerprint data, but rather literally baiting your finger onto the reader and then switching to a Touch ID subscription prompt under your finger?
- greglindahl 8y agoI'd bet that A/B testing would easily show that they make a lot more money if the users' finger is already on the reader from a recent press.
- wool_gather 8y agoNo, I understand that, and maybe this is just a tangent, but the parent post seemed to be implying that the app was using the fingerprint itself, and I was trying to get a clarification. (And I'm honestly a little skeptical of the story.)
- madeofpalk 8y agoWatch the video. It's a scam app. There's zero actual ancestry finding going on. It's like those scamming 'anti virus' apps for iPhone. The app has zero use for the fingerprint, apart from manipulating you into subscribing to a $100/month in app purchase subscription https://vimeo.com/287737290 https://vimeo.com/287737290
- wool_gather 8y agoI see, thanks for that extra information.