The Human Touch: Biometrics Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
By Christian Fredrikson, CEO, Fingerprints
For thousands of years, humanity has used fingers to express itself. Crossing one’s index and middle fingers in the West means good luck, India’s intricate hand mudras indicate everything from no fear to reverence, and a thumb down signalled bad news for Rome’s gladiators.
Today, however, we’re doing even more with our fingers. From accessing mobile devices to authorizing payments, the use of fingers - in particular, our fingerprints - has grown rapidly.
So rapidly in fact that in May 2019, we announced that we had shipped 1 billion fingerprint sensors worldwide. But how did we get here, and where do we go next?
Authentication is dead, long live authentication
It’s a funny coincidence ‘PIN’ and ‘pain’ are only one letter apart. For years, PIN aut...