iPhone 5 / print recognition ?????

[_Stormin_]

I am a developer for Apple, and I can tell you that third party companies have zero access to the data. This would be SO HANDY just for banking software, rather than having to enter my current massive alphanumeric passwords laced with symbols.

Oddly enough, with as much as I have been fingerprinted, I couldn't care less about the data being stored on the phone. It's locked away in a separate memory partition that's only accessible by the TouchID software.

I just wish that they would open it up to specific entities who can certify a specific level of security. Like my bank...

[glocktogo]

[Gutshot John]

Don't buy one.

Problem solved.

[SilverBullet432]

im sure this feature, just like the number lock, can be disabled? i dont have my phone locked, so i never use those features. (iphone5)

[Hmac]

im sure this feature, just like the number lock, can be disabled? i dont have my phone locked, so i never use those features. (iphone5)

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/10/...-sensor-works/

[Rattlehead]

Don't buy one.

Problem solved.

Exactly.

[SpeedRacer]

If it's a tool they can use, regardless how benevolent it was designed, they will find a way to use it at some point. While I don't see any immediate threat from them gathering a fingerprint most of us already have on file, I could see it being used as a form of evidence of activity on your phone. In other words, you do something that gets their attention, there's no "that wasn't me using my phone" defense when an access log shows your fingerprint.