Consumer fingerprint based products and services are not uploading your fingerprints anywhere.

Fingerprint at border control is evil, but the ones on your phone or laptops are not the same.

Think of it this way:

When you type a password into a website, you are giving them (the website) the secret and they validate it.

When you use your fingerprint to authenticate to an online service/app, your computer checks your fingerprint and reports the result to the service. Your fingerprint (the secret) and all of the material you gave to set up fingerprint recognition (the identifier) all remain local and private.

Services need to trust your device for it to work because they are getting second hand information so they need to know and trust the middleman on your phone which is facilitated using cryptography developed to be used between them and your device manufacturer of course.

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How do you know?

This can only be proven on an open source system and I doubt the majority of people uses Graphene on their phones.

Any IPhone or Android user exposes their self-collected biometric data to the wholecworld.

I agreed with you up to the last sentence. Just because I don't know with absolute certainty, doesn't mean the opposite is true.

With everything there is a level of trust. We trust that corporations aren't lying always, we trust that white hackers aren't just actors, we trust a lot. Otherwise there are so many unknowns around you, that fingerprint reader is no where near the top of your list and that tin foil on your head is actually an antenna.

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The tinfoil is protective head gear. I’m all about it.

How do you know? 👀😎

It was a joke, but it feels highly secure and protective. Especially when i activate the chin strap

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Yikes. Wtf is that

Maybe its Spotify embed..

Yup.