Re:Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
by gpmcadam on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @05:28PM
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Apple claims that the fingerprint data is never transmitted to any servers and is kept only on the phone for the purposes of authentication.
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Not only that, but it can't be accessed by software either. Only the Touch ID sensor has hardware access to the actual fingerprint data, which is stored on separate memory on the A7 chip. That was in the keynote presentation.