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Re:Face ID and Touch ID for the Web by acdha on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:16PM (#23632562)
This isn't biometric authentication: it's WebAuthn, which is a public-key based system implemented by all major browsers (https://webauthn.io/). This particular implementation uses biometrics to unlock it but other implementations use a contact sensor (Yubikeys) or PIN, and the target website doesn't need to know anything about which particular mechanism was used to unlock the keystore.

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