Distinction without a difference. My argument is that fingerprint is digitally preserved; not that it is an exact replica of a fingerprint. If it only compares

Distinction without a difference. My argument is that fingerprint is digitally preserved; not that it is an exact replica of a fingerprint. If it only compares a hash, it is still a biometric record and that hash has to be somewhere to be compared against ( which itself opens an interesting can of worms depending on the implementation although I do have some level expectation from Apple engineers that it was not botched ). You seem to be too focused on technical implementation and relative security of a given solution. In other words, I am willing to buy an argument that Apple's implementation is better than some other implementations out there, but it does not apply to this case, because it was not Apple's Face ID that we are discussing.