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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data

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‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data

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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Residents of São Paulo's outskirts explained why they chose to give over their personal data to the World ID project. Around 400,000 Brazilians sold their iris data for cryptocurrency.
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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    The iris can be used, for example, to improve authentication techniques for bank passwords

    Nope. Like all biometrical data, you can’t just replace the body part once the data is compromised. It’s at most suitable for ease of access.

    For example, Merkels fingerprints were “reverse-engineered” from photos using common wood glue.

    https://www.theregister.com/2014/12/29/german_minister_fingered_as_hackers_steal_her_thumbprint_from_a_photo/

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Yup, I use my fingerprint for my phone because it’s convenient, but require my pin (6 numbers) on boot, and my phone reboots a couple times each day (after a set time not using it). Anything more important uses a very long password.

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        So it could restart, you wouldn’t know and don’t receive calls because you haven’t authenticated?

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      Yep, this discussion has been done to death decades ago when datacenters and other secure facilities started using iris scans.

      Biometrics is the username, not the password.

      It’s frustrating that so many reporters and news orgs can’t grasp this.

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    Money.

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