Chapter 2: Biometrics and Mobile Devices

Your mobile device is probably the most frequently used piece of technology you own. Mobile devices are convenient and are used for a number of different reasons. As a result, our devices hold a great deal of information about us, which includes photos we take, our contacts, location information, and our messages. No matter what we do on a mobile device, consumers continue to demand that the companies we interact with on a daily basis continue to provide the highest level of privacy and security.

In this chapter, you’ll gain a better understanding of the many ways in which biometrics are used to secure mobile devices. Because more and more devices are using biometrics, such as fingerprint recognition, we’ll compare various biometric methods. You’ll gain a better understanding of how touch, gesture, voice, and facial recognition are used in fintech (financial technology) to enable payment processing, or by general applications...