biometrics

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Apple's addition of a fingerprint reader in its latest smartphone the iphone 5s is part of its strategy to double down on device security. by Zack Whittaker September 10 2013 12:27 PM PDT Apple has unveiled its smartphone

a fingerprint reader it's calling Touch ID. With its move Apple could end up making the technology commonplace as rivals might feel compelled to follow suit.

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We were thinking about fingerprint readers, but they were not reliable enough when you change devices--from one fingerprint reader to another,

we couldn't tell you were the same person. The palm scan--the vein-reading technology--we see that at about a 10

The staff told me that they clock in with a fingerprint reader. Is that your system? You can sign into our applications with a fingerprint reader,

but clocking inâ that's not ours. We've enabled biometrics, but the one we haven't done is the iris reader.

And the thing about a palm reader versus a fingerprint reader is that someone can cut your hand off,

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