By Alan Martin posted 1 Dec 2014
http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Touch-ID-623x410.jpgThe former head of the UK’s government’s communications agency GCHQ has issued warnings over the privacy of the biometric security increasingly favored in top-end mobile phones and other devices, Computing reports.
Both Apple and Samsung’s flagship handsets use fingerprint sensors to protect the contents of the phone, and although neither are foolproof – as reported on We Live Security here and here – it is the privacy of the data which concerns Sir John Adye, who headed the agency from 1989 to 1996.
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Phone biometric security need to be controlled, says ex-GCHQ chief
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