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Speculation has been rife that at some point the newest iPhone will offer such technology.  There seems to be some basis for this speculation; Apple did recently acquire AuthenTec, a company that specializes in the development of fingerprint scanning capacity for mobile phones and other portable devices.  According to reports, Apple spent in excess of $350 million to purchase the company; it therefore seems likely that they have plans in the works to build fingerprint readers into their devices, possibly including iPads and iPods as well as iPhones.<\/p>\n

A fingerprint scanner on a cell phone could change the landscape for personal security, making it vastly more difficult for a stranger to access data on a phone that he or she finds lying around on the street.  It is true, of course, that old cell phones can be secured with a password, but fingerprint scanning security would be at least an order of magnitude more powerful than the methods that users currently have to safeguard the personal information stored in their phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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