BIOMETRICS: “No keys to lose, forget or drop.”

Credit cards can be counterfeited;
Passwords can be guessed or stolen.
Is there a “foolproof” way to identify someone?

The answer is YES, here comes BIOMETRICS.

BIOMETRICS is biological characteristics that are unique to an individual (e.g. fingerprints, voice prints, the face, hand geometry, retina scans, and DNA).
Through this new technology security is undeniably at hand and it prevents fraud and identity theft from occurring rapidly.

At a first look, we can always say that it fits a lot to the need of every individual of having a good security measure and provides a precise or unique identity that no one can create a replica for another’s profit.
Now, do you really believe that this statement really imply a perfect thought?
It’s too early to utter your big YES.

Think of this obscure dilemma that may let you think for minute.

Scenarios considering Biometrics:

•If a theft steals your identity through Social Security Numbers, etc., we can really get a new one. HOWEVER, if a hacker gets a copy of the file with the digitalized thumbprint (for instance), we cannot get a new one.

•Biometrics makes it easier to build dossier on people. Meaning through biometrics, those spies can really get your complete if not, almost inclusive record or profiles of yours that could be used in whatever way that they wanted.

Now, did you understand the tight spot of using or not engaging to biometrics?
The decision is yours to be made.
Mine here is to give you some sort of realization, but the most important thing to be made before doing any action is to be more vigilant and never give your 100 percent trust, not only to those unfamiliar person or aliens but to everybody because you’ll never know what’s on their mind. BE PRACTICAL and BE A KEEN OBSERVANT.

*** the purpose of this blog is not to offend anyone but to express the viewpoint of student on to what is ethics and how it is important to the society nowadays.

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