For more than 100 years, recording people’s fingerprints has involved them pressing their fingertips against a surface. So-called contactless fingerprinting technology uses your phone’s camera and image processing algorithms to capture people’s fingerprints. Contactless fingerprinting works using several processes, says Chace Hatcher, vice president of technology at Telos, a fingerprinting technology company. “The underlying component of this is an image …
Creepy cookies that track all your online activity are being eradicated. Similarly, your browser fingerprint is a set of information that’s collected from your phone or laptop each time you use it that advertisers can eventually link back to you. “It takes information about your browser, your network, your device and combines it together to create a set of characteristics …
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When Queensland sawmill worker Jeremy Lee refused to give his fingerprints to his employer as part of a new work sign-in, he wasn't just thinking about his privacy. He says Mr Lee's case reflects the complicated intersection of privacy and technology — an area in which the law is struggling to keep up pace. 'A fantastic and unusual outcome' The …
