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As others have joked: Imagine how much people would freak out if Apple devices had a microphone or a camera capable of recording you surreptitiously! If you're

As others have joked: Imagine how much people would freak out if Apple devices had a microphone or a camera capable of recording you surreptitiously! If you're worried that Apple will roll over for the NSA, and that the NSA will, at some point, be out to get you, the quantity of information they could gather through backdoors on your phone is so astounding that it's hard to understand why hashed fingerprint feature analysis would be the last straw.

praptak 13y ago
To be clear - it's not about the scenario where NSA is already out to get me. Obviously in this case the cost of getting my fingerprints the traditional way doesn't matter anymore. It's the scenario in which NSA gets interested in me because a) I made it easy for them to mass-harvest my fingerprints and b) they happen to get a false match on a terrorists' ashtray or whatever. I'm not convinced that the (hypothetically mass-harvested) material from the camera and microphone has comparable potential for such a false match.