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Title: Should you disable Touch ID for your own security? Post by: HCK on May 11, 2016, 04:05:12 pm Should you disable Touch ID for your own security?
<article> <section class="page"> <p> In my very first column (http://www.macworld.com/article/2824225/the-scary-side-of-touch-id.html) in this Private I series, back in October 2014, I raised the spectre of Touch ID being used against you. Approaching two years later, it’s clear that my and other people’s concerns weren’t idle speculations. A court recently required a convicted felon, immediately following her sentencing, to unlock a phone (http://www.macworld.com/article/3064452/privacy/why-your-iphone-unlocking-fingerprint-is-susceptible-to-fbi-search-warrants.html) with her fingerprint.</p><p> That’s not the first case, and there are likely to be many more. Back just after I wrote my column, a Virginia court agreed that police could demand (http://pilotonline.com/news/local/crime/police-can-require-cellphone-fingerprint-not-pass-code/article_25373eb2-d719-5a6e-b677-656699a50168.html) a man charged with choking his girlfriend provide his fingerprint to unlock his phone. (He was acquitted months later.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3067340/ios/should-you-disable-touch-id-for-your-own-security.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Should you disable Touch ID for your own security? (http://www.macworld.com/article/3067340/ios/should-you-disable-touch-id-for-your-own-security.html#tk.rss_all) |