Biometric sensors are just arriving on the tech scene. The early adopters have begun using Apple's Touch ID sensor to lock and unlock their iOS devices, and to buy iTunes.
And if the FIDO Alliance gets any traction in its efforts to promote a new technical standard for device-centric authentication, the use of a variety of biometric sensors could begin to go mainstream.
Led by PayPal, Lenovo, Google and MasterCard, the FIDO Alliance is a global initiative to establish common rules of the road that ultimately would enable any biometric sensor to unlock any online account, without sharing the biometric.
FIDO rules equip fingerprint, iris, voice and facial recognition sensors, as well as security tokens, smart cards and Near Field Communication (NFC) systems, to privately unlock banking, shopping and corporate online services that adhere to the same set of rules.
Q&A: Implications of the coming of biometric wave
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