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Privacy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

My friend was able to unlock my new Google phone with his fingerprint

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My friend was able to unlock my new Google phone with his fingerprint

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Privacy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

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Google says its Pixel 6a smartphone met the standard of unlocking with an unverified fingerprint once every 50,000 times. It happened to this reporter.

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Best to view fingerprint and pin/pattern unlocking as ways of avoiding random unlocks while in your pocket, for example.

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