Coinbase Sued For Illegal Harvesting Of Biometric Data
Another example of how KYC does more harm than good. Protect your data and privacy by using no-KYC services like Robosats and Hodlhodl
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/coinbase-sued-for-illegal-harvesting-of-biometric-data
As reported by Bloomberg, the company also harvests fingerprint data when customers log into their accounts using the required fingerprint scanning technology.
I don't get it. What fingerprint scanning tech? Do they mean touchID? Isn't fingerprint auth on phones done locally? I thought apps don't have access to this data by design?
Bloomberg got that bit wrong. The suit, which was filed in federal court in San Francisco, claims that Coinbase harvests facial data from IDs and selfies that customers upload
