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What’s It Gonna Take For Someone To Give Me This Slick In-Display Fingerprint Reader
Synaptics’s Clear ID sensor is not the first sensor to scan your thumb print through a display. The Vivo X20 phone, available now in China, is not the first phone to read your thumb through the screen. You might not know this if you’d seen the headlines coming out of CES – where Synaptic’s Clear…
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Kid Hero Buys $250 In Pokémon Swag With Sleeping Mum’s Thumbprint
Photo: Getty While Touch ID may feel like the most secure way to prevent others from accessing your phone, it cost Bethany Howell $US250 ($349). While the Arkansas mother napped on the couch in the week before the holidays, her 6-year-old daughter Ashlynd borrowed her thumbprint to unlock her phone and opened the Amazon app.
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US Justice Department Claims It Can Enter A House And Demand Fingerprints To Unlock Everyone’s Phones
Under the Fourth Amendment, Americans are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures, but according to one group of federal prosecutors, just being in the wrong house at the wrong time is cause enough to make every single person inside provide their fingerprints and unlock their phones.
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Your Nexus 6’s Lack Of Fingerprint Sensor Is Apple’s Fault
The Nexus 6 is incredibly large and also amazingly good. But as your fingers slide around that monstrous screen, there’s one thing that’s missing: fingerprint recognition. And that, apparently, is Apple’s fault.