Biometrics sounds cool—and safe. Maybe, but read this first
- Mar 22
- 1 min read
WALL STREET JOURNAL —“People like convenience, they like speed. That’s why people are choosing biometrics. If I’m going to stand in a line for an hour, the shorter line using biometrics sounds enticing,” says Jodi Daniels, founder and chief executive of Red Clover Advisors, a privacy consulting firm in Atlanta. “But you always have to think about the worst-case scenario: What could happen here?”
One thing that could happen is that your biometric data is stolen and used by hackers to impersonate you. When you set up biometric authentication to confirm your identity when paying for purchases, a digital translation of your face or palm, say, is created and stored by the merchant or a third party.
That data—like any other personal data you’ve given out—is vulnerable to hackers, who may be able to use it for identity theft.
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