Apparently, there may be yet another reason to be underwhelmed by
the iPhone 5s: a lawyer named Marcia Hofmann, writing for Wired,
offers the opinion that its fingerprint authentication might end up
eroding a long-cherished legal right.
In this case it wouldn't be the government chipping away at your
statutory protections, but technology itself.
The protection that Hofmann thinks might be at risk relates to
self-incrimination.
Many jurisdictions give you some sort of "right to silence" - in the
USA, it's usually known as the Fifth, because the Founding Fathers
neglected to enshrine it in the original constitution, leaving it to
be retrofitted in the so-called Fifth Amendment some three years
later.
via [1]Apple's "Touch ID" fingerprint login - not everyone is
cock-a-hoop about it | Naked Security.
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My original entry is here: [2]Apple's "Touch ID" fingerprint login -
not everyone is cock-a-hoop about it | Naked Security. It posted Mon,
16 Sep 2013 16:50:22 +0000.
Filed under: Apple, authentication, biometrics, InfoSec,
References
1.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/15/apples-touch-id-fingerprint-login-not-everyone-is-cock-a-hoop-about-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29
2.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/2013/09/16/apples-touch-id-fingerprint-login-not-everyone-is-cock-a-hoop-about-it-naked-security/
