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Re:Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S by vinceguidry on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:14PM (#6363095)
My question: Is digitized fingerprint information gathered from a given device useful? As in, could you run the prints gathered from an iPhone against, say, a DMV database? My intuition tells me that you couldn't. And that would gravely limit their utility value to the government.
Re:Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S by gnaffle on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:58PM (#6363455)
My guess is that if the sensor works as well as they claim, including 360 degree orientation, it has to store a pretty complete profile of the fingerprint.