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How can we safeguard ourselves software. Today’s smartphones come
against identity theft? / What are the loaded with fingerprint sensors that
safeguards against identity theft? / allow only a single user to unlock the
Safeguards smartphone, and all leading smartphone
makers are reporting sharp increases in
Linking bank accounts to biometric- the sale of fingerprint-enabled
based identification is the best security smartphones. Estimates are that more
against identity theft. Biometric-based than a billion fingerprint scanner-
recognition is completely personalised equipped phones will be shipped
and unique to each individual. It includes throughout the world in 2018.
identification by:
The future of biometric, to make it a more
Fingerprints consumable technology for the masses,
Handprints lies in wearables, for instance, something
Eye scans as small as a biometric ring that stores all
Voice recognition your passwords and card data. This ring
Advanced facial recognition can help you pay with a single touch
through RFID technology. The security
You may lose your debit or credit cards, here lies in the fingerprint of the user –
change your address, forget your the ring scans the fingerprint at the time
passwords, tweak your signature, look of insertion. If the fingerprint is a match,
different from your photo, but as long as the ring becomes active to pay; in the
your information is linked to your hands of a thief or fraudster, it would be
biometrics, you are safe. inactive. This will also help users to carry
less cash and cards on their person and
Most immigration authorities around the thus, reduce the chances of losing these.
world today use biometrics to identify The biometric ring could also be used for
visitors. It is increasingly being seen as authentication at other places – such as
far more secure than passwords or check-in counters at airports, bank
passcodes and much more so than withdrawal windows, payments at stores,
conventional methodologies of matching etc.
signatures or photographs.
As the use of biometric-based identity
authentication becomes more
Is biometrics here to stay? / The widespread, it will definitely be a step
future forward towards greater security. For the
Indian financial services sector,
Before Aadhaar’s launch in 2010, many biometrics will be a big hedge against
Indians had no proof of identity that identity theft and cyberfraud. For the
could be recognised across this vast, consumer, biometric-based identity
multilingual country; now 99% of adults authentication will offer a greater sense
do. The increasing use of biometric of security and peace of mind.
identification has led to advances in
fingerprint sensors and recognition
