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minus-squarenewtraditionalists ( newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 years agoDo we really wanna be giving our fingerprints to tech companies anyway?
minus-squarenottheengineer ( nottheengineer@feddit.de ) linkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 years agoThe reader doesn’t store the fingerprint, just an embedding that lets it verfiy whether or not your finger matches. And that’s stored in the secure enclave, so the OS can’t read it.
minus-squareUnbeelievable ( Unbeelievable@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-23 years agoIs that the way its usually done on phones too?
Do we really wanna be giving our fingerprints to tech companies anyway?
The reader doesn’t store the fingerprint, just an embedding that lets it verfiy whether or not your finger matches.
And that’s stored in the secure enclave, so the OS can’t read it.
Is that the way its usually done on phones too?
Correct.