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I don’t believe this is mandatory.
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Pretty sure it’s even inside a secure element; inaccessible to even the OS.
Is this actually collecting data? I’d guess it uses the phone’s local biometric authentication.
It’s not collecting anything. Your phone stores a hash of your finger prints and uses that to verify it’s you. If you already use biometrics then your phone already has that hash. And while we can never be 100% certain, I’m fairly certain that android doesn’t upload that hash anywhere, it stays local to your phone.
Say what you want about Google but they are surely not evil and bloodthirstyThat’s pretty scary.
No it’s not. If you think it is, you don’t understand what it’s saying as well as you think you do.
Can we cut out the hyperbole. They aren’t requiring it and a hash of your finger prints are already stored on your phone if you use biometrics for other things. This email is likely meant as a reminder, especially for people who may not lock their phone down as much as they should and others (likely kids) can get access and spend money they wouldn’t be able to if it was locked down.
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Every app has access to an api that asks your phone to verify your fingerprint against the ones stored for the lockscreen. The phone then asks for your fingerprint and tells the app if it passed or not.
As the commenter pointed out, it’s not an image of your fingerprint either. It’s a hash that is stored on your phone that is likely unique to that device.
Even being Google, it’s unlikely they collect biometric data. It probably uses the same SDK as other apps implementing biometric locking do, processing this data locally, as the biometric templates are also locally enrolled.
This right here. OP is freaking out over a nothing burger.