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But why couldn't the device handle your biometric authentication? Your 12-year-old son can't (hopefully) steal your face or your fingerprint.

• dane-pgp 6y ago
  You might be able to avoid a central database of biometric data, but who is going to certify the accuracy of these biometric authentication devices? Presumably if a manufacturer made a device that didn't actually bother checking the fingerprint, the systems that integrate with these devices would have to refuse to accept claims from it.
  • culturestate 6y ago
    If this were an interoperable standard, I imagine the pool of "approved issuers" would be relatively small, limited to e.g. governments or banks. Bloomberg uses a system not entirely dissimilar to this[1], and I could see Apple and Google building an OS API that the issuers' apps would use specifically for this. 1. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/101862/what-advantage-does-the-bloomberg-authentication-system-have-over-traditional-2 https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/101862/what-adv...
    • dane-pgp 6y ago
      Yup, and I could see governments demanding that these devices have "lawful interception" capability, allowing the biometric data to be scooped up with individual warrants, or in bulk with a National Security Letter, to "catch all the terrorists".