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Story: Why you should care about biometrics
Biometric Policies Need To Secure Privacy
As more legislation is enacted around the world that mandates the use of biometric data and as commercial use of biometrics increases, the market for biometric information security and assurance will increase greatly. Hackers will attack and eventually crack databases containing biometrics, even with the best applied encryption. If biometric input devices such as cameras and scanners are all that are needed to substantiate identity; then it is only a camera or a scanner that is needed to steal an identity…
The validating authority that has the biggest concern is the government. "HACKED" biometric databases are a very dangerous problem to national security efforts. If a system is ever hacked - all the data contained within is compromised (whether it is a single loss, 100 or 1000 persons) and is rendered worthless...
Eliminating the market value of the biometric identifiers in order to protect them from theft is better than firewalls, algorithms, security codes and encryption.
The correct thought process has just begun.
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