Can Biometric Security Keep Our Personal Data Safe?

Can Biometric Security Keep Our Personal Data Safe?

Our personal identities have never been so vulnerable. As our lives become more digitalised and more mobile, information we want to keep private is increasingly at risk.

In 2015, over 169million personal records were exposed from 781 breaches across the financial sector, education and government. Last year, we also saw a 38% increase in more security incidents than 2014. According to a recent survey, 20% of all social media accounts will be hacked at some point – with a growing figure of 2.67billion social accounts held worldwide, that’s a lot of potential data exposure!

To protect ourselves, we have to remember so many different passwords for accounts linked to most aspects of our lives. We’re stuck in a bit of a password prison. A hexadecimal hell.

Biometric security could well be the answer. Biometrics is a term used for physical or logical traits of the body that differ from one person to the next. Things like iris recognition, fingerprints, ear scans and DNA can be used to identify each individual uniquely.

We’re seeing an increase in a transition to Biometric Security in recent years, with over 6million biometric applications downloaded last year and a forecast of 770million to be downloaded by 2019. Not to forget the number of devices that have built in biometric authentication, with most smartphones now offering the option for fingerprint recognition to access the device. The adoption of fingerprint recognition has been extremely popular. Consumers – like myself – like things to be done quickly, easily, efficiently and fingerprint access is a way to do that, without having to type in a password each time you want to check your Twitter feed.

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