Even as Appleannounced Touch ID, a fingerprint-scanning feature, on the iPhone 5S, concerns over privacy and identity tracking began to take shape. In the wake of news that the U.S. government is ...

Three quarters of police forces in England and Wales now have access to mobile fingerprint scanners issued by the Home Office, new data reveals. In total, 28 of 43 police forces have started using the ...

Apple’s reputation for watertight security is coming under scrutiny after apps posing as fitness-tracking tools were caught using the Touch ID fingerprint scanner to steal money from iOS users.

Maybe you suspected this already, but researchers at MSU Computer Science just published a paper explaining just how easy it is to spoof a fingerprint scanner with a ink-jet printed scan of a finger.

The S6 and S6 Edge smartphones both have a vastly improved fingerprint reader, making this feature a must to set up and use on your new device. Jason Cipriani Contributing Writer, ZDNet Jason Cipriani ...

With his young son’s birthday coming up in a few weeks, [Mike Buss] wanted to build him something fun that the boy could hold on to all his life. After doing some sketching, [Mike] arrived at the idea ...

The Hungary’s Border Policing Innovation Program research initiative focuses on how contactless fingerprint scanning can be ...

Reseachers at Germany's Security Research Labs were able to sneak past Samsung's fingerprint security by using a fingerprint spoof. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Qualcomm unveiled new fingerprint sensors that can be placed beneath a phone's display and will even recognize a print underwater. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com.