Would You store your Fingerprint in the Cloud? Apple new Online Fingerprint Storage Biometric sensors

Apple has launched an online fingerprints  storage in the cloud, which could then be used on other devices with biometric sensors.

 

User could press the TouchID scanner on any Apple device to sign into accounts and make payments. The benefit is to eliminate stress of multiple record of  fingerprints across multiple devices which Apple described in the patent as ‘cumbersome.’

 

This would limit hackers to what they could do with a file of a fingerprint, but last month a team of security researchers was able to recreate a physical print using just a high-resolution photo - highlighting the dangers.

 

According to the ‘Finger biometric sensor data synchronization via a cloud computing device and related methods’ patent: ‘A common approach to fingerprint identification involves scanning a sample fingerprint or an image, and storing the image.

‘The characteristics of a sample fingerprint may be compared to information for reference or enrolled fingerprints already in a database to determine proper identification of a person, such as for verification purposes.

‘Despite the existence of such fingerprint matching techniques, enrollment may become cumbersome for users in some instances, such as when multiple fingerprints, users, and devices are used.’

Apple proposes an electronic system that uses a biometric sensor and a so-called ‘first processor’. The processor collects biometric data from a sensor.