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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Considering this is Google we're talking about and they're moving towards the "Let's be evil for the heck of it" motto, is there a chance they're uploading the scanned biometrics for keepsies?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    In theory the biometric data lives in a special part of the phone hardware that the software can't (generally) access. It's one of the big deals about phone biometrics - it should be really hard to leak.

    AFAIU, the fingerprint stored on the phone is incredibly low quality, so I'm not sure how much value it would have.

    Could they mess with that? Yes. Is there profit in getting a really low quality hash of every user's fingerprint? Probably not worth the hassle.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm sorry, are you trying to suggest that Google is now going to store and track every Pixel user's biometrics? Why would you think that? What's changed now that suggests Google would even try that?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why would you think they wouldn't. Data is literally money.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This site is almost worse than Reddit sometimes with the hyperbole and the nutty takes. No, Google isn't about to abuse its position, squander decades of goodwill and open itself up to regulatory hell to sell biometric data to some mythical boogie man.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    Thankfully I'm not American so have waaaay more protections from "evil corporations" than you. But you sound like you should start wearing tinfoil around your brain to stop them from reading your thoughts - I mean, why wouldn't they if they could, right?

    Google isn't sharing your fingerprint to the government, mate. Let's be serious.

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