In order to be able to verify your ID by your fingerprint it needs to be stored somewhere* for comparison with your input. If your fingerprint is stored somewhere then it can be hacked and accessed by undesirables. Who can subsequently do whatever they like with your phone.
Just like passwords and iris scans are stored beyond your control and can be hacked.
In other words adding fingerprint technology increases technical complexity and cost, which the user pays for, but it doesn't really increase the user's security!
So fingerprint technology is de facto just marketing hype.
And what are you going to do when it turns out that that database has been hacked? Change your fingerprint...?
Passwords can be changed. Fingerprints can't.
*probably on your phone, with a backup in someone's cloud (but not yours), like the Play Store.
Just like passwords and iris scans are stored beyond your control and can be hacked.
In other words adding fingerprint technology increases technical complexity and cost, which the user pays for, but it doesn't really increase the user's security!
So fingerprint technology is de facto just marketing hype.
And what are you going to do when it turns out that that database has been hacked? Change your fingerprint...?
Passwords can be changed. Fingerprints can't.
*probably on your phone, with a backup in someone's cloud (but not yours), like the Play Store.
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