Since the Senator. Al - Franken became a part of the United States Senate, he was the President of the judiciary Senate Subcommittee which deals with issues related to privacy, technology and the law. It was very clear in its position, which was to raise and address issues related to monitoring and technology which he feels are unfair, a bad or merely questionable for any reason any.
The launch of new iPhone 5 s Apple featuring the fingerprint scanning technology has made the Senator. Franken aware that a question needs to be asked here. He wrote a letter to the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook in him asking to give a rationale for the integration of these technologies.
He wrote that passwords are more dynamic and more secret, while fingerprints are permanent and public. No one can know your password unless you tell them, and where it is hacked, you can change at your disposal several times. On the other hand, fingerprints fingerprint cannot be changed and you have only ten to use. You leave your fingerprints when you touch something, and this makes it quite public and subject to be determined. He also adds that if an attacker gets your thumbprint, they can easily make your identity and can use it against you.
Well Mr Franken is not the only one here who is concerned by the question of the fingerprint, as some people have respected a premium of approximately 16000 US Dollars for the hacker who can enter the ID of contact for the new edition of Apple.
Some other specific questions were also asked in the letter:
1: Is the fingerprint data recorded in the convertible aircraft Visual or digital format to be used by a third party?
2: The fingerprint data is accessible through the iPhone? If yes than if this access can be done remotely, or only through physical access?
3: According to the intelligence of the right of United States, the FBI can ask for any tangible material such as books, records, documents or other items where they consider this data to be used in a counter-intelligence investigation. The issue here is that if Apple determines that the fingerprint data as a tangible element according to the guidelines of the USA Patriot Act?
Well the issues will be addressed under different forums but the Patriot Act does not seem to come into play, because Apple does not use the cloud to store the fingerprint data.
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