Phone thieves might have a harder time stealing Iphones in the future as Apple’s new patent suggests it will be using the fingerprint scanner to store data of unauthorized users trying to get into the phone.
Named the “Biometric capture for unauthorized Identification”, if the fingerprint of a user is not recognized by the scanner, a video or an image of them is taken as they try to enter the phone, as well as the fingerprint stored.
An abstract describing the fingerprint Patent reads:
A computing device may determine to capture biometric information in response to the occurrence of one or more trigger conditions. The trigger condition may be receipt of one or more instructions from one or more other computing devices, detection of potential unauthorized use by the computing device, normal operation of the computing device, and so on.
The computing device may obtain biometric information and may store such biometric information. Such biometric information may be one or more fingerprints, one or more images of a current user of the computing device, video of the current user, audio of the environment of the computing device, forensic interface use information, and so on. The computing device may then provide the stored biometric information for identification of one or more unauthorized users.
While it is not certain to be a new feature which will be effected, Apple thought it necessary to file a patent which if eventually put to use, will certainly change how biometric data is collected worldwide.