Should you disable Touch ID for your own security?<article>
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In my
very first column 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 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 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>
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Should you disable Touch ID for your own security?
