In a word: Yes.
The new generation of fingerprint-scanning technology is rapidly proliferating across the cell phone industry.
The old method -- using a light scan which was essentially a photo -- proved to be too easy to fool so that the fingerprints weren't all that good as a password replacement. But the newer technology, using a capacitive scanner, picks up tiny differences in the electric field provided by your fingertips, and reportedly works quite well and is very hard to fool.
Article on fingerprint scan technology
https://www.androidauthority.com/how-fingerprint-scanners-work-670934/
You of course are not required to use that function.
But, there is nothing stopping the FBI, the CIA or some police agency from obtaining a court order to turn on the fingerprint-capture function without your knowledge so that your prints can be inspected by police or operatives somewhere.
In fact, as we know from past experience, if security agents want such data, they often won't bother with a court order, but will simply turn on the technology themselves -- something they will be able to do very easily if a backdoor decryption bill becomes law.
Anti-encryption bill article
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/senates-new-anti-encryption-bill-even-worse-earn-it-and-thats-saying-something
The new generation of fingerprint-scanning technology is rapidly proliferating across the cell phone industry.
The old method -- using a light scan which was essentially a photo -- proved to be too easy to fool so that the fingerprints weren't all that good as a password replacement. But the newer technology, using a capacitive scanner, picks up tiny differences in the electric field provided by your fingertips, and reportedly works quite well and is very hard to fool.
Article on fingerprint scan technologyhttps://www.androidauthority.com/how-fingerprint-scanners-work-670934/
You of course are not required to use that function.
But, there is nothing stopping the FBI, the CIA or some police agency from obtaining a court order to turn on the fingerprint-capture function without your knowledge so that your prints can be inspected by police or operatives somewhere.
In fact, as we know from past experience, if security agents want such data, they often won't bother with a court order, but will simply turn on the technology themselves -- something they will be able to do very easily if a backdoor decryption bill becomes law.
Anti-encryption bill article
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/senates-new-anti-encryption-bill-even-worse-earn-it-and-thats-saying-something
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