Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."

The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.

  • Iapar@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    I don’t believe doing things over public WiFi is that secure as traffic can be logged etc.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      Most traffic these days goes over secure channels. Any time the website you’re accessing is HTTPS, they can see that you’re accessing that website, but they can’t see which pages you’re on our read what they say, or what you submit.

      The exception is if they get you to install their own certificate to allow them to man-in-the-middle you. Laws in some authoritarian countries already require devices have root certificates that allow the government to spy on everything. And the EU is currently considering the same. Which should be a major concern for any European residents.

    • uzi@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      With a new randon MAC address created each time it connects online, logging means nothing for trying to identity or remembering a device.