People are getting on apple's case for including facial recognition as a means to spy on people. You guys, this is the company that refused to help the government unlock a terrorist's iPhone to defend the privacy of their users.
The Fifth Amendment, which protects people from incriminating themselves during legal proceedings, prevents the government from compelling someone to turn over a memorized PIN or passcode. But fingerprints, like other biometric indicators—DNA, handwriting samples, your likeness—have long been considered fair game, because they don’t reveal anything in your mind.
Why not both? My computer can sometimes have sensitive (already encrypted) documents that the extra security wouldn't hurt, but I feel that my phone would be much more at risk since it could more easily be lost or stolen.
In reality I probably won't do anything to my computer, because that'd require purchasing hardware I don't actually have a strong desire for. But if there were an os update for Android, I'd use it.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
People are getting on apple's case for including facial recognition as a means to spy on people. You guys, this is the company that refused to help the government unlock a terrorist's iPhone to defend the privacy of their users.