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Michael Barrett, president of FIDO Alliance. FIDO is a group of 48 tech companies and focuses on the implementation of a technological standard for biometric sensors.
Barret said in an interview with USA Today that the first Android devices with fingerprint scanners as the FIDO standard will be.
available early 2014
“We want to provide consumers with FIDO easy but secure access to mobile services,” explains Barrett out. The arrival of the password FIDO would eventually become obsolete.
The standard is available not only for hardware manufacturers, but also for online services as their specific apps or programs can secure. app for banking then access the fingerprint stored locally by the fingerprint scanner.
Apple already has a fingerprint scanner (Touch ID) used in the iPhone 5S, but does not use FIDO. According to Barret Apple would use the technology simply: “I think Apple will eventually use FIDO but that will probably take years yet.”
leaked pictures of the HTC Max is also a fingerprint scanner to see. Whether this is going to work with FIDO is not known.
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