MasterCard Joining Push For Fingerprint ID Standard

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 5, 2013 @08:10AM from the why-not-gum-prints dept.

schwit1 writes with this selection from a story at USA Today: "MasterCard is joining the FIDO Alliance, signaling that the payment network is getting interested in using fingerprints and other biometric data to identify people for online payments. MasterCard will be the first major payment network to join FIDO. The Alliance is developing an open industry standard for biometric data such as fingerprints to be used for identification online. The goal is to replace clunky passwords and take friction out of logging on and purchasing using mobile devices. FIDO is trying to standardize lots of different ways of identifying people online, not just through biometric methods."

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Re:How about NO by phantomfive · 2013-10-05 08:17 · Score: 5, Insightful

The worst part is once your fingerprint is compromised, you can't change it easily. You can't ever use it again.

At least if you have a bad password, you can change it.

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Fingerprint == user_name by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-05 08:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

Fingerprints should be treated as user names, not as a substitute for passwords.