this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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I've never understood people who are happy to give their biometrics to fucking PayPal and every other random company. Just use a password for everything.
You don't "give" your *biometrics to any of them. Your biometric data is used to encrypt and store each services password hash or auth token on your device.
*At least when it comes to login authentication. Nothing stopping them from acquiring your biometric data from a hundred data brokers.
Stop using biometrics for everything, that'll help
That’s a fair point, I don’t want my info given to every private company out there. However the idea of the biometrics (if you take it at face value [no pun intended]) is that the biometrics are stored on the chip in your device. Then the password or authorization is then granted based on approval from that.
It’s not like you can grab another phone and try to log into said service with your biometrics.
I 100000% guarantee there is a backdoor that allows someone (at least the nsa, probably various companies) to get that data.