Friday, March 11, 2016

Biometrics Are Coming, Along With Serious Security Concerns

Date published: 
March 9, 2016

"Just because someone might be able to use their ear at checkout doesn’t mean it’s necessarily going to happen anytime soon, though. “Biometrics are tricky,” Woodrow Hartzog, an Associate Professor of Law at Samford University told WIRED. “They can be great because they are really secure. It’s hard to fake someone’s ear, eye, gait, or other things that make an individual uniquely identifiable. But if a biometric is compromised, you’re done. You can’t get another ear.”



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on March 10, 2016 at 02:48AM

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