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Use biometric security at your own risk.
Just don't. No pussyfootin' around. Every single person the US has access to is a possible "suspect" for anything it claims.
Act like it, citizens. Protect yourself, then help others to do likewise.✊🏼
So tired of the "if you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide" and "if you care too much about privacy, then you seem suspicious" lines.
People have given away their own data security little by little, and the surveillance state is already cooked into most of our hardware. I've raised a fuss about it all along the way, and people always thought I was some weirdo doomsday conspiracy theorist, or hiding something on my hard drives...
I've never used this. Not in the entire time I've owned phones and computers.
For those protesting ICE right now, do NOT use face recognition or finger prints. Turn that shit off and never turn them back on.
So basically, the reporter said she doesnt use it, but that was just a lie she got called out on?
Or it was setup at one point by whomever assists her with IT and she forgot. Lots of possibilities when you're dealing with humans
That makes the most sense. It was probably set up the day she got it as part of the onboarding process and then she never used it and forgot about doing something that took 30 seconds several years ago.
Even then, why not just use the wrong finger(s) enough times to disable biometrics there too?
They "assisted" her to put her finger on the fingerprint reader (i.e., grabbed her hand and forced her finger onto it).
Ah no good then :/
The only thing of mine that uses biometrics is my phone, and that is very easy to put into lockdown mode.