Although stealing bio information may be more difficult than credit cards, you cannot cancel your fingerprint. Should your bio information be stolen and put to ill use, your only option would be to have your accounts cancelled and never use the service again. What will be done to remedy this situation?

If the central database of fingerprints was compromised, every customer in the database would have to be permanently removed. One breach = 2 million lost customers.

Moreover, imagine a situation where this becomes a widespread adopted technology and any fingerprint you come across is likely to be connected to some account. Processes for reproducing a fingerprint from a coffee mug will quickly emerge. Don't know about you but there's already a place in my wardrobe reserved for gloves; right beside the tinfoil hat.

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