Sen. Franken Frets Over Apple's Fingerprint Technology

Users could be impersonated for life

It's one thing for a hacker to get your digital password and impersonate you on the Internet; you can easily change your password. But your fingerprint is a whole other matter, said Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.).

Franken, who has taken a strong interest in the use of facial recognition and other biometric technology, is worried about Apple's new fingerprint reader on the new iPhone, Touch ID, because, as he puts it, if a hacker gets a hold of your thumbprint, "they could use it to identify and impersonate you for the rest of your life."

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