‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data

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• Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Money.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The iris can be used, for example, to improve authentication techniques for bank passwords

  Nope. Like all biometrical data, you can’t just replace the body part once the data is comprised. It’s at most suitable for ease of access.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup, I use my fingerprint for my phone because it’s convenient, but require my pin (6 numbers) on boot, and my phone reboots a couple times each day (after a set time not using it).

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    • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So it could restart, you wouldn’t know and don’t receive calls because you haven’t authenticated?

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, this discussion has been done to death decades ago when datacenters and other secure facilities started using iris scans.

    Biometrics is the username, not the password.

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